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.
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Historical Evolution
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Bronze
Early Western Zhou (~1000 BC)
里
Bronze
Late Western Zhou (~800 BC)
里
Seal
Chu (Warring States: 475-221 BC)
里
Seal
Shuowen (~100 AD)
里
Clerical
Qin dynasty (221-206 BC)
里
Clerical
Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)
里
Clerical
Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)
里
Clerical
Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)
里
Clerical
Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)
里
Clerical
Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)
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Clerical
Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)
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Regular
Modern
Chinese
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 / 裡 [lǐ]
lining; interior; inside; internal; also written 裏|里[lǐ]
Japanese
noun
- village; hamlet
- countryside; country
- home (of one's parents, etc.); hometown
- one's origins; one's upbringing; one's past
noun
- Japanese league; ri; (explanation) old Japanese unit of distance, approx. 3.927 km or 2.44 miles
- neighbourhood (under the ritsuryō system; orig. of 50 homes)
- unit of area (approx. 654 m by 654 m)
Korean
리 [里]
ri; A bound noun that serves as a unit of distance.
Example Sentences
Japanese Names
里 さと
Sato place namesurnamefemale given name
里 さとざき
Satozaki surname
里 さとし
Satoshi male given name
里 さとゆき
Satoyuki unclassified name
里 ざと
Zato place name
里 り
Ri unclassified name
里 りあ
Ria unclassified name
CHINESE WORDS (200)
这里 [zhèlǐ] #76
here
那里 [nàli] #234
there
哪里 [nǎlǐ] #273
where?
里面 [lǐmiàn] #347
inside
公里 [gōnglǐ] #3,790
kilometer
英里 [Yīnglǐ] #1,414
mile (unit of length equal to 1.609 km)
村里 [cūnlǐ] #11,237
village
手里 [shǒulǐ] #1,705
in hand
夜里 [yèli] #5,571
during the night
平方公里 [píngfānggōnglǐ] #46,881
square kilometer
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JAPANESE WORDS (122)
⭐ 鴨 [かも] #16,963
duck
人里 [ひとざと] #19,969
village
⭐ 千里 [せんり] #23,019
1000 ri
⭐ 郷里 [きょうり] #23,543
hometown
⭐ 里帰り [さとがえり] #23,980
returning home to one's parents (orig. of a married person)
千里眼 [せんりがん] #26,304
clairvoyance
⭐ 万里 [ばんり] #31,737
thousands of miles
人里離れた [ひとざとはなれた] #32,713
lonely (place)
一里 [いちり] #36,606
2.44 miles
山里 [やまざと] #38,017
mountain hamlet
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