(lǐ) - inside, in, within in Mandarin

lǐ

Traditional: 裡

HSK 1

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Translation

inside, in, within

Word origin

里 means inside or within. It is a compound of 田 'field' and 土 'earth'; it originally meant a village or a unit of distance, and is also used as the simplified form of 裏 'inside'.

Origin: compound
Root: 田 (field) + 土 (earth)

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里

Examples

？

What is inside the bag?

。

She is waiting for me at home.

。

This supermarket has everything inside it.

口kǒu。

There are only five yuan left in my pocket.

屋wū。

There are many people in the house.

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Multi-character compounds in the corpus that contain 里.

哪里nǎlǐwhere 这里zhè lǐhere, this place 那里nà lǐthere, over there, that place 里面lǐ miàninside, interior, within 心里xīn lǐin one's heart, in the mind 英里yīng lǐmile (unit of distance)克里斯kè lǐ sīChris (given name)

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This word is part of lesson 2.