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里

里

See also: 裏, 裡, 黒, and 浬

Translingual

Stroke order
Traditional 裡
Shinjitai 裏
Simplified 里

Han character

里 (radical 166 里+0, 7 strokes, cangjie input 田土 (WG), four-corner 60104)

  1. Kangxi radical #166, ⾥ ‎(“village”).

Derived characters

References

  • KangXi: page 1291, character 2
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 40131
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1791, character 6
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 6, page 3680, character 1
  • Unihan data for U+91CC

Chinese

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 里
Small seal script
Characters in the same phonetic series (里) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
埋 *mrɯː
霾 *mrɯː
薶 *mrɯː
榸 *ʔr'ɯː
厘 *rɯ
狸 *rɯ
貍 *p·rɯ
梩 *rɯ
艃 *rɯ
里 *rɯʔ
理 *rɯʔ
鯉 *rɯʔ
俚 *rɯʔ
悝 *rɯʔ, *km̥ʰlɯː
娌 *rɯʔ
裏 *rɯʔ
荲 *r̥ʰɯɡ, *l̥ʰuɡ, *hluɡ

Ideogrammic compound (會意) : 田 ‎(“field”) + 土 ‎(“potter's clay; earth”) – a measure of land and fields; mile; place.

Etymology 1

simp. and trad.
 里

Pronunciation

Rime
Character 里
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 來 (37)
Final (韻) 之 (19)
Tone (調) Rising (X)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) III
Fanqie 良士切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /lɨX/
Pan
Wuyun		 /lɨX/
Shao
Rongfen		 /lieX/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /lɨX/
Li
Rong		 /liəX/
Wang
Li		 /lĭəX/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /liX/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 lǐ
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 里
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 lǐ
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ liX ›
Old
Chinese		 /*(mə.)rəʔ/
English li (measure of distance); village

Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter-Sagart system:

* Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence;
* Square brackets "[]" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. *[t] as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p;
* Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix;
* Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary;

* Period "." indicates syllable boundary.
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character 里
Reading # 1/1
No. 7826
Phonetic
component		 里
Rime
group		 之
Rime
subdivision		 0
Corresponding
MC rime		 里
Old
Chinese		 /*rɯʔ/

Definitions

里

  1. li (a unit of distance equal to half a kilometre in modern China)
    公里  ―  gōnglǐ  ―  kilometre
  2. village (an administrative unit in the Republic of China)
  3. lane (a type of road in Hong Kong)
  4. A surname​.
Compounds

Etymology 2

For pronunciation and definitions of 里 – see 裡 (“inside”).
(This character, 里, is the simplified form of 裡.)
Notes:

Japanese

Kanji

里

(grade 2 “Kyōiku” kanji)

Readings

Compounds

Etymology 1

Kanji in this term
里
さと
Grade: 2
kun'yomi

From Old Japanese.[1] Ultimately derivation unknown.

Pronunciation

Alternative forms

Adjective

里 ‎(-na inflection, hiragana さと, romaji sato)

  1. (slang, red-light district) boorish, hickish
Conjugation

Noun

里 ‎(hiragana さと, romaji sato)

  1. village
  2. country house
  3. one's hometown
  4. the country, the countryside
  5. the original home of a household member (such as a wife, adoptee, or other person who has joined the household from outside)
  6. a separate home or boarding situation to which one's own children are sent for upbringing or education
  7. a red-light district
  8. one's birth, parentage, origins
  9. (slang, red-light district) boorishness, hickishness
  10. the lay world (as opposed to life within a temple)
  11. (obsolete) in ancient times, a unit of area for regional administration
    The ri reading below was more common for this.
  12. (obsolete) in ancient times, a unit of distance
    The ri reading below was more common for this.

Etymology 2

Kanji in this term
里
り
Grade: 2
on'yomi

From Middle Chinese 里 ‎(liX).

Pronunciation

Noun

里 ‎(hiragana り, romaji ri)

  1. unit of distance

References

  1. ↑ 1988, 国語大辞典（新装版） (Kokugo Dai Jiten, Revised Edition) (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Shogakukan
  2. 1 2 2006, 大辞林 (Daijirin), Third Edition (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Sanseidō, ISBN 4-385-13905-9
  3. 1 2 1998, NHK日本語発音アクセント辞典 (NHK Japanese Pronunciation Accent Dictionary) (in Japanese), Tōkyō: NHK, ISBN 978-4-14-011112-3

Korean

Hanja

里 • ‎(ri>i) (hangeul 리>이, McCune-Reischauer ri>i, Yale li>i)

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Vietnamese

Han character

里 (lịa, lí, lìa)

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