lǐ
inside
Variant form of 裡. Phonosemantic compound. 衤 represents the meaning and 里 represents the sound.
Evolution

Bronze script
Mid Western Zhou (~900 BC)
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)Regular script
ModernHistorical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*m.rəʔ | liX | lǐ | inside |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
Appears in 99.9680% of movies
43rd most common character in movies
50th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 13 |
Unicode | U+88CF |
Shuowen | “裏,衣內也。从衣,里聲。” |
Sources
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