li

mile

Phonosemantic compound. represents the meaning and represents the sound.

Components
口 meaning component

  Meaning component

kǒu

  

mouth

里 sound component

  Sound component

  

village

Definitions

 

mile

 

mile (unit of length equal to 1,609.344 m); old form of modern 英里[Yīng​lǐ]

 

li

(modal final particle similar to [ne] or [la])

Most common words with 哩
Freq.
Word
Meaning

(modal final particle similar to 呢[ne] or 啦[la])

咖哩

curry (loanword)

唏哩哗啦

(onom.) clatter (of mahjong tiles etc)

叽哩咕噜

(onom.) to jabber

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 2.8031% of movies

2578th most common character in movies

1949th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

10

Unicode

U+54E9


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