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HSK
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *裡* | 裡* | *裡
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
home
HSK 1
here
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
variant of 這裡|这里
HSK 1
where? / somewhere / anywhere / wherever / nowhere (negative answer to question) / humble expression denying compliment
HSK 1
there; that place
HSK 1
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *裏* | 裏* | *裏
variant of 裡|里
HSK 1
there; that place
HSK 1
chest / heart; mind
HSK 2
inside; interior
HSK 2
during the night / at night / nighttime
HSK 2
kilometer
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
milestone
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
embrace / bosom
HSK 7-9
Hillary Rodham Clinton (1947-), US Democratic politician
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.
nautical mile
Odisha (formerly Orissa), eastern Indian state
Somalia
cloudless
Yuanli town in Miaoli county 苗栗縣|苗栗县, northwest Taiwan
curie (Ci) (loanword)
Christian Bale (1974-), English actor
Harry or Hari (name)
Eritrea
beneath the surface; fundamentally; at the deepest level
Kiribati (formerly the Gilbert Islands) (Tw)
Reagan (name) / Ronald Reagan (1911-2004), US president (1981-1989)
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *里* | 里* | *里
Li (surname)
Enrico Fermi (1901-1954), Italian born US nuclear physicist
Rio de Janeiro
New Delhi, capital of India
Guattari (philosopher)
Bristol Channel in southwest England
(Tw) Gaborone, capital of Botswana
Sanlihe (Beijing street name)
Tarim River of Xinjiang
Sanlitun (Beijing street name)
Kiribati
all in all / either way
Euripides (c. 480-406 BC), Greek tragedian, author of Medea, Trojan Women etc
fighting everywhere over a thousand miles (idiom); constant fighting across the country / never-ending struggle
Riga, capital of Latvia
Adriatic Sea
stingy / petty
Saint Patrick
Hillary (name) / Hillary Rodham Clinton (1947-), US Democratic politician
mileage (distance traveled) / course (of development)
Wan Li (1916-2015), PRC politician
far away / thousands of miles; 10,000 li
Wanli township in New Taipei City 新北市, Taiwan
to work against the interests of sb one derives support from / to double-cross one's employer / to bite the hand that feeds you
Northern Mariana Islands
Merriam-Webster (dictionary)
to keep in mind; to store in one's heart; to remember perfectly
orange jasmine (Murraya paniculata) / "chicken butt", popular Taiwan snack on a stick, made of marinated "white cut chicken" butt
hysteria (loanword) / hysterical
calorie (loanword)
Toli county in Tacheng prefecture 塔城地區|塔城地区, Xinjiang
erotic animation / hentai / (loanword from Japanese 裏番組 "ura bangumi")
Bali (island province of Indonesia) (Tw)
Puli, town in Nantou County 南投縣|南投县, central Taiwan
the slightest difference leads to a huge loss (idiom) / a miss is as good as a mile
riviera (loanword) (Tw)
Sri Lanka
Aubrey (name)
Madrid, capital of Spain
(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
two-character surname Baili
Fredericton, capital of New Brunswick, Canada
publicly; outwardly; professedly
creole language
Puli, town in Nantou County 南投縣|南投县, central Taiwan
Missouri
Ferdinand von Richthofen (1833-1905), German geologist and explorer who published a major foundational study of the geology of China in 1887 and first introduced the term Silk Road 絲綢之路|丝绸之路
Bari (Puglia, Italy)
the inside
Bristol
Ali Baba, character from The Arabian Nights
Alibaba, PRC e-commerce company
expert / left-hand side (of a machine) / left-hand side (driver's side) of a vehicle
Soria, Spain
a thousand miles / a thousand li (i.e. 500 kilometers) / a long distance
neighbor / neighborhood
Conakry, capital of Guinea
potassium (loanword)
Gary (name)
flustered; in a panic
Treaty of Livadia (1879) between Russia and China, relating to territory in Chinese Turkistan, renegotiated in 1881 (Treaty of St. Petersburg)

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