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charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *里* | 里* | *里
lining / interior / inside / internal / also written 裏|里
HSK 1
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *里* | 里* | *里
li, ancient measure of length, approx. 500 m / neighborhood / ancient administrative unit of 25 families / (Tw) borough, administrative unit between the township 鎮|镇 and neighborhood 鄰|邻 levels
HSK 1
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *里* | 里* | *里
variant of 裡|里
HSK 1
home
HSK 1
inside
HSK 1
where? / somewhere / anywhere / wherever / nowhere (negative answer to question) / humble expression denying compliment / also written 哪裡|哪里
HSK 1
where? / somewhere / anywhere / wherever / nowhere (negative answer to question) / humble expression denying compliment
HSK 1
here
HSK 1
there; that place
HSK 1
there; that place
HSK 1
variant of 這裡|这里
HSK 1
inside; interior
HSK 2
during the night / at night / nighttime
HSK 2
kilometer
HSK 2
chest / heart; mind
HSK 2
inside / interior / also pr. [li3 mian5]
HSK 3
variant of 裡面|里面
HSK 3
in hand / (a situation is) in sb's hands
HSK 4
embrace / bosom
HSK 7-9
(to express one's) true feelings / what is on one's mind / secret mind
HSK 7-9
the fabled roc flies ten thousand miles (idiom) / one's future prospects are brilliant
HSK 7-9
secretly; inwardly; on the sly
HSK 7-9
milestone
HSK 7-9
Pristina, capital of Kosovo 科索沃
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *里* | 里* | *里
Li (surname)
Lisbon, capital of Portugal
(idiom) from a great distance; (to come) from afar
Mauritania
Tabriz city in northwest Iran, capital of Iranian East Azerbaijan
Achilles (or Akhilleus or Achilleus), son of Thetis and Peleus, Greek hero central to the Iliad
lit. no ivory comes from the mouth of a dog (idiom) / fig. one does not expect fine words from a scoundrel
to use seemingly innocent conversation topics as a pretext to glean information / to touch upon other matters not central to the topic being discussed
even if you build a thousand-league awning for it, every banquet must come to an end (idiom)
Sicily / Sicilia (Italian Island)
Rurik (c. 830-879), Varangian chieftain of the Rus' people
Skopje, capital of North Macedonia
Ping'an Li (street name in Beijing)
Harry or Hari (name)
P'unggye in Kilju county, North Hamgyeong province, the North Korean nuclear test site
Mauritius
Brisbane, capital of Queensland, Australia
Suriname
Ali Baba, character from The Arabian Nights
Alibaba, PRC e-commerce company
New Caledonia
Wan Li (1916-2015), PRC politician
Wanli township in New Taipei City 新北市, Taiwan
far away / thousands of miles; 10,000 li
Delhi / New Delhi, capital of India / same as 新德里
(name) Ali / Ali (c. 600–661), the fourth caliph of Islam / Alibaba, e-commerce company (abbr. for 阿里巴巴) / see 阿里地區|阿里地区
New Delhi, capital of India
to return home
Paramaribo, capital of Suriname
Ríos (name)
village / hamlet
Vasily (name)
Middlebury (College)
to meet with unexpected failure (idiom) / to fail miserably (where failure was not expected)
Liberia
(idiom) to feel a strong urge (to do sth)
Barkol Kazakh Autonomous County in Hami 哈密市, Xinjiang
Friedrich Schiller or Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller (1759-1805), German poet and dramatist
as if lost in a thick fog (idiom) / in a fog / muddled / completely unfamiliar with sth
all in all / either way
home town; native place
Florida
Harrisburg, Pennsylvania
Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal al-Saud of Saudi Arabia
Alishan mountain range in the central-southern region of Taiwan
Fuli township in Hualien County 花蓮縣|花莲县, east Taiwan
Mario (name)
Suriname River
the Tarim Basin in southern Xinjiang
the outside and the inside / one's outward show and inner thoughts / exterior and interior
Caspian Sea
the Great Wall
goose feather sent from afar, a slight present but weighty meaning (idiom); It's not the present the counts, it's the thought behind it.
one's home town or village
mileage (distance traveled) / course (of development)
riviera (loanword)
(medicine) tenesmus
two-character surname Baili
Maribor, 2nd biggest city in Slovenia
lari (currency of Georgia) (loanword)
Fredericton, capital of New Brunswick, Canada
lit. an old steed in the stable still aspires to gallop 1000 miles (idiom); fig. old people may still cherish high aspirations
Benito Mussolini (1883-1945), Italian fascist dictator, "Il Duce", president 1922-1943
Lyon, French city on the Rhône
lit. a thousand mile journey begins with the first step / fig. big accomplishments come from an accumulation of little achievements made one by one
Bristol
Morgan Freeman, American actor
lining
publicly; outwardly; professedly
gaudy / flashy (but without substance)
lit. a dagger hidden in smiles (idiom); friendly manners belying hypocritical intentions / when the fox preaches, look to the geese
Chinese roseheart radish (shinrimei radish), green on the outside, purple-red on the inside, a favorite Beijing vegetable
Kaili city in Guizhou, capital of Qiandongnan Miao and Dong autonomous prefecture 黔東南苗族侗族自治州|黔东南苗族侗族自治州
calorie (loanword)
Mali

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