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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
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  *里* | 里* | *里
variant of 裡|里
HSK 1
home
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
during the night / at night / nighttime
HSK 2
kilometer
HSK 2
chest / heart; mind
HSK 2
in hand / (a situation is) in sb's hands
HSK 4
embrace / bosom
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
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Li (surname)
Sicily / Sicilia (Italian Island)
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
(coll.) (to beat etc) to death
Shuili Township in Nantou County 南投縣|南投县, central Taiwan
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
village / hamlet
(name) Vasily; Vasiliy
Middlebury (College)
Nikolai Gogol (1809-1852), Russian author and dramatist
all in all / either way
home town; native place
Hepingli neighborhood of Beijing
Wan Li (1916-2015), PRC politician
Wanli township in New Taipei City 新北市, Taiwan
far away / thousands of miles; 10,000 li
the outside and the inside / one's outward show and inner thoughts / exterior and interior
one's home town or village
two-character surname Baili
lari (currency of Georgia) (loanword)
lit. an old steed in the stable still aspires to gallop 1000 miles (idiom); fig. old people may still cherish high aspirations
lining
publicly; outwardly; professedly
calorie (loanword)
Mali
privately; secretly; behind closed doors
neighbor / neighborhood
a clear and boundless sky
lit. eyeing what's in the pot as one eats from one's bowl (idiom) / not content with what one already has / (of men, typically) to have the wandering eye
nautical mile
Hillary (name) / Hillary Rodham Clinton (1947-), US Democratic politician
ton-kilometer (unit of capacity of transport system)
in front / in advance of the field
Tripoli, capital of Libya / Tripoli, city in north Lebanon
amidst the clouds and mist / (fig.) mystified / puzzled
curie (Ci) (loanword)
make light of traveling a thousand li / go to the trouble of traveling a long distance
Somalia
Cagliari, Sardinia
Tengri, the sky god in Mongolic and Turkic mythology
Hoh Xil or Kekexili, vast nature reserve on Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau 青藏高原
lit. kept inside a drum (idiom) / fig. completely in the dark
li (Chinese unit of length equal to 500 meters)
a tiny lapse can lead to a huge mistake (idiom); a minor discrepancy leading to enormous losses
the slightest difference leads to a huge error (idiom) / a miss is as good as a mile
li (Chinese unit of distance)
to proceed from the outside to the inside / to see the essence merely by looking at the superficial appearance
penetrated / trenchant / incisive
unaware of the inner workings / naive / unwitting
inside front cover (sometimes refers to both inside front and inside back covers)
(Tw) Gaborone, capital of Botswana
Castries, capital of Saint Lucia
inside story
Gary (name)
potassium (loanword)
Puli, town in Nantou County 南投縣|南投县, central Taiwan
square kilometer
Toli county in Tacheng prefecture 塔城地區|塔城地区, Xinjiang
Fuli township in Hualien County 花蓮縣|花莲县, east Taiwan
neighbors / the whole neighborhood
the inside
Bali (island province of Indonesia) (Tw)
Calgary, largest city of Alberta, Canada
village
Ibrahim Gambari (1944–), Nigerian diplomat and academic
mouth / in the mouth / on one's lips / speech / words
to observe; to take it all in
ukulele (loanword)
Aubrey (name)
Madrid, capital of Spain
mile (unit of length equal to 1.609 km)
a tiny lapse can lead to a huge mistake (idiom); a minor discrepancy leading to enormous losses

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