裡

See also: 裏 and 里

Translingual

Han character

裡 (Kangxi radical 145, 衣+7, 13 strokes, cangjie input 中田土 (LWG), four-corner 3621₄, composition ⿰衤里)

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: not present, would follow page 1118, character 13
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 34295
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 5, page 3094, character 3
• Unihan data for U+88E1

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Chinese

trad.		裡/裏
simp.		里*

Glyph origin

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *rɯʔ) : semantic 衤 (“clothes”) + phonetic 里 (OC *rɯʔ), rearrangement of 裏.

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): lǐ (li³)

  (Zhuyin): ㄌㄧˇ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): leoi⁵ / lei⁵
• Hakka

  (Sixian, PFS): lî / tî

  (Meixian, Guangdong): li²

• Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): --lí / --lin / --ni̍h / lí
• Wu (Wugniu)
  • (Northern): ⁶li

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: lǐ → li (toneless final syllable variant)
    • Zhuyin: ㄌㄧˇ → ˙ㄌㄧ (toneless final syllable variant)
    • Tongyong Pinyin: li̊
    • Wade–Giles: li⁵
    • Yale: li
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: .lii
    • Palladius: ли (li)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /li²¹⁴/ → /li/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: leoi⁵ / lei⁵
    • Yale: léuih / léih
    • Cantonese Pinyin: loey⁵ / lei⁵
    • Guangdong Romanization: lêu⁵ / léi⁵
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /lɵy̯¹³/, /lei̯¹³/

Note:

• leoi5 - vernacular (“in; inside; during; place”);
• lei5 - literary (“lining”, also dated reading of leoi5).

• Hakka
  • (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Meinong)
    • Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: lî / tî
    • Hakka Romanization System: li´ / di´
    • Hagfa Pinyim: li¹ / di¹
    • Sinological IPA: /li²⁴/, /ti²⁴/
  • (Meixian)
    • Guangdong: li²
    • Sinological IPA: /li¹¹/

Note:

• tî - “in; during”.

• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien: General Taiwanese)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: --lí
    • Tâi-lô: --lí
  • (Hokkien: variant in Taiwan)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: --lin
    • Tâi-lô: --lin
  • (Hokkien: variant in Taiwan)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: --ni̍h
    • Tâi-lô: --ni̍h
  • (Hokkien: Xiamen, Quanzhou, Zhangzhou, General Taiwanese)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: lí
    • Tâi-lô: lí
    • Phofsit Daibuun: lie
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /li⁵⁵⁴/
    • IPA (Xiamen, Zhangzhou, Taipei): /li⁵³/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /li⁴¹/

Note: lí - “lining”.

• Wu
  • (Shanghai):
    • Wugniu: ⁶li
    • MiniDict: li^去
    • Wiktionary Romanisation (Shanghai): ³li
    • Sinological IPA (Shanghai): /li²³/

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• Middle Chinese: liX

Rime
Character	裡
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	來 (37)
Final (韻)	之 (19)
Tone (調)	Rising (X)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	III
Fanqie	良士切
Baxter	liX
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/lɨX/
Pan Wuyun	/lɨX/
Shao Rongfen	/lieX/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/lɨX/
Li Rong	/liəX/
Wang Li	/lĭəX/
Bernard Karlgren	/liX/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	lǐ
Expected Cantonese Reflex	lei5

• Old Chinese

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*m.rəʔ/

  (Zhengzhang): /*rɯʔ/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	裡
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	lǐ
Middle Chinese	‹ liX ›
Old Chinese	/*m.rəʔ/
English	inside
Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter–Sagart system: * Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence; * Square brackets "[]" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. *[t] as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p; * Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix; * Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary; * Period "." indicates syllable boundary.

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	裡
Reading #	1/1
No.	7832
Phonetic component	里
Rime group	之
Rime subdivision	0
Corresponding MC rime	里
Old Chinese	/*rɯʔ/

Definitions

(deprecated template usage) 裡

1. (postpositional) in; inside
   • 誰在這房間裡？／谁在这房间里？  ―  Shéi zài zhè fángjiān lǐ?  ―  Who is inside this room?
2. (postpositional) during; within
   • 暑假裡／暑假里  ―  shǔjiǎ lǐ  ―  during the summer holidays
3. Indicates a place.
   • 這裡／这里  ―  zhèlǐ  ―  here
   • 那裡／那里  ―  nàlǐ  ―  there
   • 哪裡／哪里  ―  nǎlǐ  ―  where
4. interior; inside
5. lining

Synonyms

• (Cantonese) 度 (dou6)
• (Teochew) 底 (doi2)

Compounds

(deprecated template usage)

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Japanese

Kanji

裡

(“Jinmeiyō” kanji used for names)

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Readings

• On (unclassified): り (ri)
• Kun: うら (ura), うち (uchi)

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Korean

Hanja

裡 • (ri>i) (hangeul 리>이, McCune–Reischauer ri>i, Yale li>i)

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Vietnamese

Han character

(deprecated template usage) 裡 (lí)

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