里

See also: 裏, 裡, and 黒

§Translingual

§Etymology

Ideogrammic compound (會意) : 土 (potter's clay/earth) + 田 (field); meaning a measure of land (土) and fields (田), literally "place" or "mile"

Stroke order

Stroke order

§Han character

里 (radical 166 里+0, 7 strokes, cangjie input 田土 (WG), four-corner 6010₄)

§Derived characters

• Index:Chinese radical/里
• 埋 理 (理) 狸 (貍) 裡 (裏)

§See also

• 黒

§References

• KangXi: page 1291, character 2
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 40131
• Dae Jaweon: page 1791, character 6
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 6, page 3680, character 1
• Unihan data for U+91CC

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§Chinese

simpl.		里
trad.		裏/裡

§Etymology 1

§Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): lǐ (li³)

  (Zhuyin): ㄌㄧˇ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): lei⁵
• Hakka (Pha̍k-fa-sṳ): li, lí
• Min Nan (POJ): lí
• Wu (WT Romanisation): li (T3)

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese, Beijing)⁺
    • Pinyin: lǐ
    • Zhuyin: ㄌㄧˇ
    • Wade-Giles: lih³
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: lii
    • IPA ^(key): /li²¹⁴/

    • (file)

• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: lei⁵
    • Yale: léih
    • Cantonese Pinyin: lei⁵
    • IPA ^(key): /lei̯¹³/
• Hakka
  • Romanisations:
    • Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: li, lí
• Min Nan
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: lí
    • Tâi-lô: lí
    • IPA (Taipei): /li⁴¹/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /li⁵³/
• Wu
  • (Shanghainese)
    • WT Romanisation: li (T3)
    • IPA ^(key): /li²³/

Middle Chinese pronunciation (里, reconstructed)
Character (里), Pronunciation 1/1
Initial: 來 (37) Final: 之 Division: III			Openness: Open Tone: Rising (X)			Fanqie: 良士切
Zhengzhang Shangfang	Bernard Karlgren	Li Rong	Pan Wuyun	Edwin Pulleyblank	Wang Li	Shao Rongfen
/lɨX/	/liX/	/liəX/	/lɨX/	/lɨX/	/lĭəX/	/lieX/

Old Chinese pronunciation (里, reconstructed)
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character								Modern Beijing (Pinyin)								Middle Chinese								Old Chinese								English
里								lǐ								‹ liX ›								/*(mə.)rəʔ/								li (measure of distance); village
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					No.					Phonetic component					Rime group					Rime subdivision					Corresponding MC rime					Old Chinese					Notes
里					7826					里					之					0					里					/*rɯʔ/

§Definitions

里

1. li (a unit of distance equal to half of a kilometre in modern China)

   公里  ―  gōnglǐ  ―  kilometre

2. village (an administrative unit in Taiwan Area, Republic of China)
3. lane (a type of Hong Kong road)
4. A surname​.

§Etymology 2

For pronunciation and definitions of 里 – see 裡. (This term, 里, is the simplified form of 裡.)

Notes: Simplified Chinese is mainly used in Mainland China and Singapore. Traditional Chinese is mainly used in Hong Kong, Macau and Taiwan.

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§Japanese

§Kanji

里

(grade 2 “Kyōiku” kanji)

§Readings

• Goon: り (ri)
• Kan’on: り (ri)
• Kun: さと (sato)

§Compounds

Derived terms

里芋 (satoimo) 里親 (satooya) 里子 (satogo) 旧里 (furusato) 古里 (furusato)

Kanji in this term

里

さと Grade: 2

kun'yomi

§Noun

里 (hiragana さと, romaji sato)

1. country house
2. village

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§Korean

§Hanja

里 (ri, i) (hangeul 리, 이, McCune-Reischauer ri, i, Yale li, i)

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§Vietnamese

§Han character

里 (lý, lịa, lí, lìa)

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