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HSK
where? / somewhere / anywhere / wherever / nowhere (negative answer to question) / humble expression denying compliment
HSK 1
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
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
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *裏* | 裏* | *裏
variant of 裡|里
HSK 1
there; that place
HSK 1
there; that place
HSK 1
chest / heart; mind
HSK 2
during the night / at night / nighttime
HSK 2
kilometer
HSK 2
in hand / (a situation is) in sb's hands
HSK 4
secretly; inwardly; on the sly
HSK 7-9
the fabled roc flies ten thousand miles (idiom) / one's future prospects are brilliant
HSK 7-9
embrace / bosom
HSK 7-9
nautical mile
Somalia
beneath the surface; fundamentally; at the deepest level
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *里* | 里* | *里
Li (surname)
New Delhi, capital of India
fighting everywhere over a thousand miles (idiom); constant fighting across the country / never-ending struggle
Hillary (name) / Hillary Rodham Clinton (1947-), US Democratic politician
Wan Li (1916-2015), PRC politician
Wanli township in New Taipei City 新北市, Taiwan
far away / thousands of miles; 10,000 li
calorie (loanword)
Bali (island province of Indonesia) (Tw)
Puli, town in Nantou County 南投縣|南投县, central Taiwan
mile (unit of length equal to 1.609 km)
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
publicly; outwardly; professedly
Bari (Puglia, Italy)
the inside
neighbor / neighborhood
a thousand miles / a thousand li (i.e. 500 kilometers) / a long distance
Conakry, capital of Guinea
Gary (name)
potassium (loanword)
(Tw) Gaborone, capital of Botswana
to pay attention to / to care about / to attach importance to
Nikolai Gogol (1809-1852), Russian author and dramatist
Sicily / Sicilia (Italian Island)
all around
lari (currency of Georgia) (loanword)
Manzhouli, county-level city, Mongolian Manzhuur xot, in Hulunbuir 呼倫貝爾|呼伦贝尔, Inner Mongolia
lit. an old steed in the stable still aspires to gallop 1000 miles (idiom); fig. old people may still cherish high aspirations
lining
square kilometer
behind sb's back; secretly
one's home town or village
privately; secretly; behind closed doors
light-years (apart) / a million miles (apart) / (i.e. indicates a huge difference or a huge distance)
Conakry, capital of Guinea (Tw)
Cagliari, Sardinia
Surrey (county in England)
li (Chinese unit of distance)
lit. kept inside a drum (idiom) / fig. completely in the dark
Longli county in Qiannan Buyei and Miao autonomous prefecture 黔南州, Guizhou
inside story
you're too kind; you flatter me
village
Aubrey (name)
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
the slightest difference leads to a huge loss (idiom) / a miss is as good as a mile
a clear and boundless sky
the outside and the inside / one's outward show and inner thoughts / exterior and interior
Toli county in Tacheng prefecture 塔城地區|塔城地区, Xinjiang
make light of traveling a thousand li / go to the trouble of traveling a long distance
Harry or Hari (name)
home town; native place
Bunbury, coastal city in Western Australia / Banbury, town in Oxfordshire, England
to proceed from the outside to the inside / to see the essence merely by looking at the superficial appearance
to return home
hysteria (loanword) / hysterical
Avebury (stone circle near Stonehenge)
ton-kilometer (unit of capacity of transport system)
the slightest difference leads to a huge error (idiom) / a miss is as good as a mile
unaware of the inner workings / naive / unwitting
Fuli township in Hualien County 花蓮縣|花莲县, east Taiwan
Skopje, capital of North Macedonia
inside front cover (sometimes refers to both inside front and inside back covers)
Vasily (name)
li (Chinese unit of length equal to 500 meters)
all in all / either way
Castries, capital of Saint Lucia
Jiali, a district in Tainan 台南, Taiwan
evil deeds spread a thousand miles (idiom); scandal spreads like wildfire
lit. one day, a thousand miles (idiom); rapid progress
curie (Ci) (loanword)
Tripoli, capital of Libya / Tripoli, city in north Lebanon
Shuili Township in Nantou County 南投縣|南投县, central Taiwan
Delhi / New Delhi, capital of India / same as 新德里
Huli, a district of Xiamen City 廈門市|厦门市, Fujian
Martti Ahtisaari (1937-2023), Finnish politician, peace negotiator and 2008 Nobel peace laureate
village / hamlet
Yuli town in Hualien County 花蓮縣|花莲县, east Taiwan

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