(lǐ) - inside, in, within in Mandarin
lǐTraditional: 裡
Translation
inside, in, within
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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)
Stroke order
里
Examples
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What is inside the bag?
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She is waiting for me at home.
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This supermarket has everything inside it.
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There are only five yuan left in my pocket.
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There are many people in the house.
Where this fits
Appears in 7 words
Multi-character compounds in the corpus that contain 里.
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This word is taught in chapter 2, lesson 11: 里, 快, 觉得 and 7 more words.