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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
here
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
there; that place
HSK 1
there; that place
HSK 1
home
HSK 1
inside / interior / also pr. [li3 mian5]
HSK 3
chest / heart; mind
HSK 2
inside
HSK 1
kilometer
HSK 2
during the night / at night / nighttime
HSK 2
inside; interior
HSK 2
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *里* | 里* | *里
variant of 裡|里
HSK 1
variant of 這裡|这里
HSK 1
in hand / (a situation is) in sb's hands
HSK 4
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  *里* | 里* | *里
Li (surname)
variant of 裡面|里面
HSK 3
(to express one's) true feelings / what is on one's mind / secret mind
HSK 7-9
lit. one day, a thousand miles (idiom); rapid progress
Sanlitun (Beijing street name)
thousand miles distant
the Kremlin
Tigris River, Iraq
to tuck into one's bosom / also written 揣在懷裡|揣在怀里
Santorini (volcanic island in the Aegean sea)
Changjiang River / Yangtze River
(medicine) tenesmus
to coordinate outside and inside offensives (idiom) / (fig.) to act together
to keep in mind; to store in one's heart; to remember perfectly
cloudless
Jericho (town in West Bank)
Bridgetown, capital of Barbados
Friesland, province of the Netherlands
recluse / hikikomori person
lit. ten thousand miles of rivers and mountains / a vast territory (idiom)
calorie (loanword)
embrace / bosom
HSK 7-9
(Antoine de) Saint-Exupéry
the Great Wall
Wanli, a district of Nanchang City 南昌市, Jiangxi
secretly; inwardly; on the sly
HSK 7-9
what has (he) got up (his) sleeve? / what's going on?
Rivaldo
Stonehenge / Salisbury stone circle
one in a hundred / cream of the crop
Crimea
milestone
HSK 7-9
(bird species of China) Turkestan ground jay; Pander's ground jay (Podoces panderi)
Lyon, French city on the Rhône
Aristotle (384-322 BC), Greek philosopher
Missouri
from the inside to the outside / through and through / thoroughly
penetrated / trenchant / incisive
city dweller; townspeople
Crete
the inside
orange jasmine (Murraya paniculata) / "chicken butt", popular Taiwan snack on a stick, made of marinated "white cut chicken" butt
Real Madrid (soccer team)
the slightest difference leads to a huge loss (idiom) / a miss is as good as a mile
li (Chinese unit of length equal to 500 meters)
mouth / in the mouth / on one's lips / speech / words
to know the score (idiom) / to be well aware of the situation
Bali or Pali township in New Taipei City 新北市, Taiwan
from the bottom of one's heart / heartily / sincerely
inside and out
Cyrillic alphabet / Cyrillic letters
one's words carry an implicit meaning
Longli, a county in Qiannan Buyei and Miao Autonomous Prefecture 黔南布依族苗族自治州, Guizhou
Tarim Basin depression in southern Xinjiang
square kilometer
a general planning in the seclusion of his tent is able to determine the outcome of the distant battle (idiom)
(idiom) from a great distance; (to come) from afar
Sri Lanka
inside and out / or so
one's home town or village
Caspian Sea
Lilongwe, capital of Malawi (Tw)
Sea of Galilee
Hoh Xil or Kekexili, vast nature reserve on Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau 青藏高原
gaudy / flashy (but without substance)
Taimali township in Taitung County 臺東縣|台东县, southeast Taiwan
Kaili, a county-level city in 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, Guizhou
to be able to plan victory from a thousand miles away (idiom)
(adverbial phrase used with verbs such as 歸|归 or etc) traveling a great distance
the Shanghai of old, with its foreign settlements / (fig.) a bustling, cosmopolitan city
winding and turning (idiom)
mile (unit of length equal to 1.609 km)
the fabled roc flies ten thousand miles (idiom) / one's future prospects are brilliant
HSK 7-9
Jiali, a district in Tainan 台南, Taiwan
lit. an ant hole may cause the collapse of a great dike (idiom) / fig. huge damage may result from a moment's negligence
Tarim River of Xinjiang
lit. ten thousand mile horse / fine steed
all is grist that comes to the mill (idiom)
New Delhi, capital of India
village / hamlet
(coll.) meek and civil in public, but a tyrant at home

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