Chinese Character Wiki
里

lǐ

village

A village (里) is an area of land (土) where people have fields (田). In simplified Chinese 里 is also used to mean "inside", while in traditional Chinese this meaning is written with a separate character 裡.

Components
田 meaning component

田  Meaning component

tián

  

field

土 meaning component

土  Meaning component

tǔ

  

earth

Evolution

里 Bronze script Early Western Zhou (~1000 BC)

Bronze script

Early Western Zhou (~1000 BC)
里 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
里 Clerical script Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)

Clerical script

Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)
里 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

里 (裡) 

lǐ

inside, interior, within; lining; interior; inside; internal; also written 裏|里[lǐ]

里  

Lǐ

Li (surname)

里  

lǐ

li, ancient measure of length, approx. 500 m; neighborhood; ancient administrative unit of 25 families; (Tw) borough, administrative unit between the township 鎮|镇[zhèn] and neighborhood 鄰|邻[lín] levels

里 (裏) 

lǐ

variant of 裡|里[lǐ]

Most common words with 里
Freq.
Word
Meaning

里

inside

这里

here

那里

there

哪里

where?

里面

inside

Component uses

Meaning component in 1 character (0 verified)

㢆

Sound component in 17 characters (5 verified)

裏 裡 理 厘 釐 埋 哩 狸 貍 鯉 鲤 俚 鋰 锂 娌 悝 陧

Unknown component in 1 character (0 verified)

廛

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*(mə.)rəʔ

liX

lǐ

li (measure of distance); village


Statistics

HSK level 1

Appears in 99.9680% of movies

43rd most common character in movies

50th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

7

Traditional

裡

Unicode

U+91CC

Shuowen

“里，居也。从田，从土。”


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