英里
yīnglǐTraditional: 英里
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Translation
mile (unit of distance)
Word origin
A compound of 英 (yīng, British) and 里 (lǐ, the traditional Chinese unit of distance), coined to name the imperial mile.
- Origin
- compound
- Root
- 英 (yīng, British) + 里 (lǐ, distance unit)
Stroke order
英
里
Examples
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The school is about three miles from here.
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He runs five miles every day.
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A mile is a little longer than a kilometre.
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We still have ten miles to go.
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This road is twenty miles long.
英里 (yīng lǐ) is the Mandarin word for the mile. It marks the imperial unit by prefixing 英 (British) to the native distance word 里.
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