village

A village () is an area of land () where people have fields (). In simplified Chinese is also used to mean "inside", while in traditional Chinese this meaning is written with a separate character .

Components
田 meaning component

  Meaning component

tián

  

field

土 meaning component

  Meaning component

  

earth

Evolution

里 Bronze script Early Western Zhou (~1000 BC)

Bronze script

Early Western Zhou (~1000 BC)
里 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
里 Clerical script Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)

Clerical script

Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)
里 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

() 

inside, interior, within; lining; interior; inside; internal; also written |[lǐ]

 

Li (surname)

 

li, ancient measure of length, approx. 500 m; neighborhood; ancient administrative unit of 25 families; (Tw) borough, administrative unit between the township |[zhèn] and neighborhood |[lín] levels

() 

variant of |[lǐ]

Most common words with 里
Freq.
Word
Meaning

inside

这里

here

那里

there

哪里

where?

里面

inside

Component uses

Meaning component in 1 character (0 verified)

Sound component in 17 characters (5 verified)

Unknown component in 1 character (0 verified)

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*(mə.)rəʔ

liX

li (measure of distance); village


Statistics

HSK level 1

Appears in 99.9680% of movies

43rd most common character in movies

50th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

7

Traditional

Unicode

U+91CC

Shuowen

“里,居也。从田,从土。”


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