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charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *里* | 里* | *里
lining / interior / inside / internal / also written 裏|里
HSK 1
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  *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
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
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  *里* | 里* | *里
variant of 裡|里
HSK 1
there; that place
HSK 1
there; that place
HSK 1
home
HSK 1
inside
HSK 1
here
HSK 1
variant of 這裡|这里
HSK 1
kilometer
HSK 2
chest / heart; mind
HSK 2
inside; interior
HSK 2
during the night / at night / nighttime
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
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  *里* | 里* | *里
Li (surname)
a thousand miles / a thousand li (i.e. 500 kilometers) / a long distance
Mauritania
Maribor, 2nd biggest city in Slovenia
Brisbane, capital of Queensland, Australia
Sicily / Sicilia (Italian Island)
Mauritius
Suriname
Ali Baba, character from The Arabian Nights
Alibaba, PRC e-commerce company
Wan Li (1916-2015), PRC politician
Wanli township in New Taipei City 新北市, Taiwan
far away / thousands of miles; 10,000 li
Manzhouli, county-level city, Mongolian Manzhuur xot, in Hulunbuir 呼倫貝爾|呼伦贝尔, Inner Mongolia
(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
Crimea
Bari (Puglia, Italy)
the outside and the inside / one's outward show and inner thoughts / exterior and interior
village / hamlet
Kiribati
Liberia
nautical mile
Barkol Kazakh Autonomous County in Hami 哈密市, Xinjiang
Friedrich Schiller or Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller (1759-1805), German poet and dramatist
all in all / either way
hysteria (loanword) / hysterical
Harrison Schmitt (Apollo 17 astronaut)
home town; native place
Madrid, capital of Spain
Huli, a district of Xiamen City 廈門市|厦门市, Fujian
Sri Lanka / (formerly) Ceylon
Harry or Hari (name)
inner tube (of tire)
Reagan (name) / Ronald Reagan (1911-2004), US president (1981-1989)
Lérida or Lleida, Spain
mile (unit of length equal to 1.609 km)
Mario (name)
Cagliari, Sardinia
Florida
the Tarim Basin in southern Xinjiang
Christian Bale (1974-), English actor
Caspian Sea
the Great Wall
one's home town or village
mileage (distance traveled) / course (of development)
lining / (fig.) substance (as opposed to outward appearance)
(tender)loin (of pork, beef etc)
(medicine) tenesmus
Lisbon, capital of Portugal
two-character surname Baili
Longli county in Qiannan Buyei and Miao autonomous prefecture 黔南州, Guizhou
lari (currency of Georgia) (loanword)
(adverbial phrase used with verbs such as 歸|归 or etc) traveling a great distance
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
Freeman (surname)
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
Rio de Janeiro
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
Vasily (name)
calorie (loanword)
mortal danger, escape alive (idiom); a narrow escape / to survive by the skin of one's teeth
Mali
Missouri
privately; secretly; behind closed doors
Kaliningrad, town on Baltic now in Russian republic / formerly Königsberg, capital of East Prussia
neighbor / neighborhood
a clear and boundless sky
from distant parts

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