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Definitions
- 1. lining
- 2. interior
- 3. inside
- 4. internal
- 5. also written 裏|里[lǐ]
- 6. li, ancient measure of length, approx. 500 m
- 7. neighborhood
- 8. ancient administrative unit of 25 families
Example Sentences
1 shown穆 里 爾現在 20 歲。
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Words Containing 里
Christian Bale (1974-), English actor
Liuli district of Xuzhou city 徐州市[xú zhōu shì], Jiangsu
the Kremlin
lira (monetary unit) (loanword)
inside and out
a tiny lapse can lead to a huge mistake (idiom); a minor discrepancy leading to enormous losses
Somalia
Rurik (c. 830-879), Varangian chieftain of the Rus' people
Yuanli town in Miaoli county 苗栗縣|苗栗县[miáo lì xiàn], northwest Taiwan
Aurelia, a hypothetical planet
the fabled roc flies ten thousand miles (idiom)
Gary (name)
lit. a dagger hidden in smiles (idiom); friendly manners belying hypocritical intentions
Ussuri River
one's words carry an implicit meaning
light-years (apart)
to meet with unexpected failure (idiom)
Fuli township in Hualien County 花蓮縣|花莲县[huā lián xiàn], east Taiwan
(onom.) to crackle and rattle
behind sb's back
Pericles (c. 495-429 BC), Athenian strategist and politician before and at the start of the Peloponnesian war
penetrated
hooliganism
Bristol
see 居禮夫人|居礼夫人[jū lǐ fū ren]
kilometer per hour
Alexander Scriabin (1872-1915), Russian composer and pianist
Fredericton, capital of New Brunswick, Canada
Achilles (or Akhilleus or Achilleus), son of Thetis and Peleus, Greek hero central to the Iliad
Bactria, an ancient country of Central Asia
Friedrich (name)
Petri dish
Crimea
Bridgetown, capital of Barbados
Bali or Pali township in New Taipei City 新北市[xīn běi shì], Taiwan
Hepingli neighborhood of Beijing
Vasilievich (name)
Puli, town in Nantou County 南投縣|南投县[nán tóu xiàn], central Taiwan
Richter magnitude scale
Crete
the Great Wall
during the night
Mali
Teresa
Barkol Kazakh Autonomous County in Hami 哈密市[hā mì shì], Xinjiang
lit. kept inside a drum (idiom)
Cripps (name)
Longli county in Qiannan Buyei and Miao autonomous prefecture 黔南州[qián nán zhōu], Guizhou
Jiali, a district in Tainan 台南|台南[tái nán], Taiwan
nautical mile
Ali (name)
village shrine to the earth god
mortal danger, escape alive (idiom); a narrow escape
Kristiansund (city in Norway)
inside
to know the score (idiom)
Maryland, US state
Tripura (Indian state)
Sea of Galilee
Daoli district of Harbin 哈爾濱|哈尔滨[hā ěr bīn] in Heilongjiang
Sri Lanka
Eritrea
not to understand the situation
Jacques Derrida (1930-2004), philosopher
recluse
Martti Ahtisaari (1937-), Finnish diplomat and politician, veteran peace negotiator and 2008 Nobel peace laureate
Enrico Fermi (1901-1954), Italian born US nuclear physicist
Richter (scale)
goose feather sent from afar, a slight present but weighty meaning (idiom); It's not the present the counts, it's the thought behind it.
Guattari (philosopher)
clairvoyance
Geoffrey Chaucer (1343-1400), English poet, author of The Canterbury Tales 坎特伯雷故事集[kǎn tè bó léi gù shì jí]
Pratchett (name)
Dali or Tali City in Taichung County 臺中縣|台中县[tái zhōng xiàn], Taiwan
loin (of pork)
odometer
Mario (name)
Sicily
sagging
Harry or Hari (name)
Sanlitun (Beijing street name)
Swahili
Kalimantan (Indonesian part of the island of Borneo)
(to express one's) true feelings
Likang township in Pingtung County 屏東縣|屏东县[píng dōng xiàn], Taiwan
Mauritius
square kilometer
Burj Khalifa, skyscraper in Dubai, 830 m high
Bunbury, coastal city in Western Australia
Stonehenge
common saying
inside
Suriname
Sharif (name)
to keep in mind
thin
lit. eyeing what's in the pot as one eats from one's bowl (idiom)
P'unggye in Kilju county, North Hamgyeong province, the North Korean nuclear test site
Wanli township in New Taipei City 新北市[xīn běi shì], Taiwan
see 左鄰右舍|左邻右舍[zuǒ lín yòu shè]
Trinidad and Tobago
Wanli district of Nanchang city 南昌市, Jiangxi
suddenly
lit. a thousand mile journey begins with the first step
a tiny lapse can lead to a huge mistake (idiom); a minor discrepancy leading to enormous losses
to have a plan in mind
Brisbane, capital of Queensland, Australia
hysteria (loanword)
Bandar Seri Begawan, capital of Brunei
Bari (Puglia, Italy)
to tuck into one's bosom
Richter (name)
neighbor
lit. to choose a general among the dwarves (idiom)
Florida
Nikolai Gogol (1809-1852), Russian author and dramatist
speedometer (of a vehicle)
Flores, Indonesia
Bolshoi Ussuriisk Island in the Heilongjiang or Amur river, at mouth of the Ussuri River opposite Khabarovsk
Barkol Kazakh Autonomous County in Hami 哈密市[hā mì shì], Xinjiang
Changjiang River
Ussuriisk city in Russian Pacific Primorsky region
Guiseppe Garibaldi (1807-1882), Italian military commander and politician
Puli, town in Nantou County 南投縣|南投县[nán tóu xiàn], central Taiwan
outside appearance and inner reality differ (idiom); not what it seems
Northern Mariana Islands
orange jasmine (Murraya paniculata)
confused
goose feather sent from afar, a slight present but weighty meaning (idiom); It's not the present the counts, it's the thought behind it.
(coll.) to be completely at ease
Maribor, 2nd biggest city in Slovenia
to observe
Jericho (town in West Bank)
publicly; outwardly; professedly
Riga, capital of Latvia
Adriatic Sea
Britney, Brittney or Brittany (name)
muddleheaded
goose feather sent from afar, a trifling present with a weighty thought behind it (idiom); It's not the gift that counts, but the thought behind it.
neighbors
Likang township in Pingtung County 屏東縣|屏东县[píng dōng xiàn], Taiwan
Meilisi Daur district of Qiqihar city 齊齊哈爾|齐齐哈尔[qí qí hā ěr], Heilongjiang
one's home town or village
the Crimean War (1853-1856)
Madrid, capital of Spain
Fuli township in Hualien County 花蓮縣|花莲县[huā lián xiàn], east Taiwan
Harrisburg, Pennsylvania
Grimstad (city in Agder, Norway)
winding and turning (idiom)
Manzhouli, county-level city, Mongolian Manzhuur xot, in Hulunbuir 呼倫貝爾|呼伦贝尔[hū lún bèi ěr], Inner Mongolia
mozzarella (loanword)
Barkol grasslands near Hami in Xinjiang
island of Bali
Arirang, famous Korean song of love and tragic separation, based on folk tale from Georyo dynasty
lit. one day, a thousand miles (idiom); rapid progress
Huili county in Sichuan
lit. to swallow one's knocked-out teeth after getting punched in the face (idiom)
Tenerife
K2, Mt Qogir or Chogori in Karakorum section of Himalayas
see 嘰哩咕嚕|叽哩咕噜[jī li gū lū]
thousands of miles away
Tarim Basin depression in southern Xinjiang
Galilee
Crete
the Bezeklik Thousand Buddha Caves, in the Turpan Basin, Xinjiang
Morgan Freeman, American actor
Pericles (c. 495-429 BC), Athenian strategist and politician before and at the start of the Peloponnesian war
Delhi
(medicine) tenesmus
to proceed from the outside to the inside
amidst the clouds and mist
New Delhi, capital of India
Chinese roseheart radish (shinrimei radish), green on the outside, purple-red on the inside, a favorite Beijing vegetable
connoisseur
as if lost in a thick fog (idiom)
kilometer
fighting everywhere over a thousand miles (idiom); constant fighting across the country
Dali or Tali City in Taichung County 臺中縣|台中县[tái zhōng xiàn], Taiwan
Kaliningrad, town on Baltic now in Russian republic
mileage (distance traveled)
(Jean-Michel) Severino, CEO of the Agence Française de Développement (AFD)
lit. ten thousand miles of rivers and mountains
(Antoine de) Saint-Exupéry
Jeremy (name)
Conakry, capital of Guinea
Liuli district of Xuzhou city 徐州市[xú zhōu shì], Jiangsu
even if you build a thousand-league awning for it, every banquet must come to an end (idiom)
see 千里之堤，潰於蟻穴|千里之堤，溃于蚁穴[qiān lǐ zhī dī , kuì yú yǐ xué]
Sanlihe (Beijing street name)
Khan Tengri or Mt Hantengri on the border between Xinjiang and Kazakhstan
Joris Ivens (1898-1989), Dutch documentary filmmaker and committed communist
evil deeds spread a thousand miles (idiom); scandal spreads like wildfire
New Caledonia
Ali Baba, character from The Arabian Nights
Missouri
li (Chinese unit of distance)
Rio de Janeiro
see 吃著碗裡，看著鍋裡|吃着碗里，看着锅里[chī zhe wǎn lǐ , kàn zhe guō lǐ]
Meili Snow Mountains, with peaks up to 6000 m., in Diqing Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture 迪慶藏族自治州|迪庆藏族自治州[dí qìng zàng zú zì zhì zhōu], Yunnan
what has (he) got up (his) sleeve?
a clear and boundless sky
valkyrie
privately; secretly; behind closed doors
Florida, US state
home
foolish
Sayram Lake in Xinjiang
Hoh Xil or Kekexili, vast nature reserve on Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau 青藏高原[qīng zàng gāo yuán]
Qilihe District of Lanzhou City 蘭州市|兰州市[lán zhōu shì], Gansu
village
Tikrit
all around
Trieste, port city in Italy
Houli Township in Taichung County 臺中縣|台中县[tái zhōng xiàn], Taiwan
(coll.) meek and civil in public, but a tyrant at home
(bird species of China) Pander's ground jay (Podoces panderi)
Hillary (name)
Liberia
Shangri-La County in Dêqên or Diqing Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture 迪慶藏族自治州|迪庆藏族自治州[dí qìng zàng zú zì zhì zhōu], northwest Yunnan
Sicily
Dhaulagiri, mountain massif in the Himalayas
Wanli district of Nanchang city 南昌市, Jiangxi
Cyrillic alphabet
goose feather sent from afar (idiom); a trifling present with a weighty thought behind it
Barkol Kazakh Autonomous County in Hami 哈密市[hā mì shì], Xinjiang
Suriname River
Regina city, capital of Saskatchewan province, Canada
sweet and sour pork
Northern Mariana Islands
cloudless
to work against the interests of sb one derives support from
Alishan mountain range in the central-southern region of Taiwan
inside and out
Mariana Trench (or Marianas Trench)
Damali or Tamali township in Taitung County 臺東縣|台东县[tái dōng xiàn], southeast Taiwan
mozzarella (loanword)
Diocletian (c. 245-311), Roman emperor
Florida, US state
make light of traveling a thousand li
Curitiba (city in Brazil)
Tongariro, volcanic area on North Island, New Zealand
to pay attention to
neighborhood warden
to belittle
Yuli town in Hualien County 花蓮縣|花莲县[huā lián xiàn], east Taiwan
Salisbury plain
Agatha Christie
Bristol port city in southwest England
Uliastai, the Qing name for outer Mongolia
Ríos (name)
Romário
you're too kind; you flatter me
expert
Chuck Norris (1940-), American martial artist and actor
(tender)loin (of pork, beef etc)
Jean Baudrillard (1929-2007), French cultural theorist and philosopher
Ferdinand von Richthofen (1833-1905), German geologist and explorer who published a major foundational study of the geology of China in 1887 and first introduced the term Silk Road 絲綢之路|丝绸之路
to return home
just as bad; not much better
in hand
Friedrich (name)
lining
Taimali township in Taitung County 臺東縣|台东县[tái dōng xiàn], southeast Taiwan
see 行萬里路，讀萬卷書|行万里路，读万卷书[xíng wàn lǐ lù , dú wàn juàn shū]
Kristian or Christian (name)
mile (unit of length equal to 1.609 km)
Molière (1622-1673), French playwright and actor, master of comedy
to tuck into one's bosom
half outside, half inside
Kaliningrad Oblast
Friesland, province of the Netherlands
Hillary Rodham Clinton (1947-), US Democratic politician
Crimea
to have secret motives
thyme (Thymus vulgaris)
Boris (name)
Riverside
daytime
Yerevan, capital of Armenia 亞美尼亞|亚美尼亚[yà měi ní yà]
milestone
Cathy Freeman (1973-), Australian sprinter
village
all in all
secretly; inwardly; on the sly
Yuli town in Hualien County 花蓮縣|花莲县[huā lián xiàn], east Taiwan
lesbian-like (i.e. exhibiting lesbian traits) (coined c. 2018)
Manzhouli, county-level city, Mongolian Manzhuur xot, in Hulunbuir 呼倫貝爾|呼伦贝尔[hū lún bèi ěr], Inner Mongolia
Huli district of Xiamen city 廈門市|厦门市[xià mén shì] (Amoy), Fujian
to return home with honor
Julia Kristeva (1941-), Bulgarian-French psychoanalyst, philosopher and literary critic
Daoli district of Harbin 哈爾濱|哈尔滨[hā ěr bīn] in Heilongjiang
Patrick (name)
uneven
Tarim River of Xinjiang
Lérida or Lleida, Spain
Pristina, capital of Kosovo 科索沃
between the words and the lines (idiom); implied meaning
Damali or Tamali township in Taitung County 臺東縣|台东县[tái dōng xiàn], southeast Taiwan
Alexandria
Tigris River, Iraq
lit. no ivory comes from the mouth of a dog (idiom)
Reagan (name)
Paramaribo, capital of Suriname
Bristol Channel in southwest England
Trier (city in Germany)
lane
to travel a thousand miles beats reading a thousand books
Soria, Spain
lit. an ant hole may cause the collapse of a great dike (idiom)
Shangri-La (mythical location)
there; that place
Gregory or Grigory (name)
Surrey (county in England)
Saint Patrick
Benito Mussolini (1883-1945), Italian fascist dictator, \Il Duce\, president 1922-1943
lining
Surrey (county in south England)
Caliphate (Islamic empire formed after the death of the Prophet Mohammed 穆罕默德 in 632)
Aristophanes (c. 448-380 BC), Greek comic playwright
creole language
Euclid of Alexandria (c. 300 BC), Greek geometer and author Elements 幾何原本|几何原本
Silesia
beneath the surface
both publicly and privately; both overtly and secretly; both explicitly and implicitly
Aristotle (philosopher)
Liguria, northwest Italy
to look for bones in an egg
external appearance and inner thoughts coincide (idiom); to say what one means
Lille (city in France)
Ngari prefecture in Tibet, Tibetan: Mnga' ris sa khul
(loanword) caliph
(coll.) (to beat etc) to death
Kiribati (formerly the Gilbert Islands)
all is grist that comes to the mill (idiom)
(idiom) to feel a strong urge (to do sth)
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
Chiali town in Tainan county 台南縣|台南县[tái nán xiàn], Taiwan
Vasily (name)
Professor Ibrahim Gambari (1944-), Nigerian scholar and diplomat, ambassador to UN 1990-1999, UN envoy to Burma from 2007
K2, Mt Qogir or Chogori in Karakorum section of Himalayas
(fig.) a bustling, cosmopolitan city
Missouri
a tiny lapse can lead to a huge mistake (idiom); a minor discrepancy leading to enormous losses
Meilisi Daur district of Qiqihar city 齊齊哈爾|齐齐哈尔[qí qí hā ěr], Heilongjiang
Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal al-Saud of Saudi Arabia
Florida
Caspian Sea
from the inside to the outside
Toli county in Tacheng prefecture 塔城地區|塔城地区[tǎ chéng dì qū], Xinjiang
Aubrey (name)
inside story
from distant parts
Euclid of Alexandria (c. 300 BC), Greek geometer and author of Elements 幾何原本|几何原本
Bloomsbury, London district
unsophisticated
where?
long-winded
a general planning in the seclusion of his tent is able to determine the outcome of the distant battle (idiom)
lit. to look at flowers in the fog (idiom); fig. blurred vision
inside back cover
quaint
(adverbial phrase used with verbs such as 歸|归[guī] or 赴[fù] etc) traveling a great distance
see 行萬里路，讀萬卷書|行万里路，读万卷书[xíng wàn lǐ lù , dú wàn juàn shū]
straight or circular throwing-knife used by ninja and samurai (loanword from Japanese 手裏剣 shuriken)
Kubrick
(computing) currying
Ping'an Li (street name in Beijing)
Treaty of Livadia (1879) between Russia and China, relating to territory in Chinese Turkistan, renegotiated in 1881 (Treaty of St. Petersburg)
(onom.) rustling sound
Huli district of Xiamen city 廈門市|厦门市[xià mén shì] (Amoy), Fujian
in front
Toli county in Tacheng prefecture 塔城地區|塔城地区[tǎ chéng dì qū], Xinjiang
stingy
Jean-Baptiste-Joseph Fourier (French mathematician, 1768-1830)
to be able to plan victory from a thousand miles away (idiom)
Euripides (c. 480-406 BC), Greek tragedian, author of Medea, Trojan Women etc
one in a hundred
Cantabria, Spanish autonomous region, capital Santander 桑坦德[sāng tǎn dé]
Freetown, capital of Sierra Leone
riviera (loanword)
internal strife (family, group, etc)
Maastricht
Nad Ali, town in Helmand province, Afghanistan
Chonburi province of east Thailand
to use seemingly innocent conversation topics as a pretext to glean information
thousand miles distant
Cagliari, Sardinia
potherb mustard
the outside and the inside
can't bear having grit in one's eye (idiom)
Meilisi Daur district of Qiqihar city 齊齊哈爾|齐齐哈尔[qí qí hā ěr], Heilongjiang
Frederick (name)
see 窩裡鬥|窝里斗[wō li dòu]
curie (Ci) (loanword)
ton-kilometer (unit of capacity of transport system)
Wallis (name)
Houli Township in Taichung County 臺中縣|台中县[tái zhōng xiàn], Taiwan
inner courtyard (in a courtyard house)
lit. good deeds do not go beyond the door, evil deeds spread a thousand miles
messy
Friedrich Schiller or Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller (1759-1805), German poet and dramatist
here
Tigris River, Iraq
Maryland, US state
Qilihe District of Lanzhou City 蘭州市|兰州市[lán zhōu shì], Gansu
lit. choose a general from among the dwarfs
inside
Dongchang-ni, North Korean missile launch site on Yellow Sea, 70 km from Chinese border
Tabriz city in northwest Iran, capital of Iranian East Azerbaijan
Cyril (name)
from the bottom of one's heart
Asturias, northwest Spanish autonomous principality on the bay of Biscay
Mariana Islands in the Pacific
Podgorica, capital of Montenegro
(name) Christine, Kristine, Kristen, Kristin etc
goose feather sent from afar (idiom); a trifling gift with a weighty thought behind it
Kalimantan island (Indonesian name for Borneo island)
sharia (Islamic law) (loanword)
Real Madrid (soccer team)
lit. there are many swift horses, but very few who can spot them (idiom)
Rio
lit. ten thousand mile horse
lari (currency of Georgia) (loanword)
Bali or Pali township in New Taipei City 新北市[xīn běi shì], Taiwan
Sophocles (496-406 BC), Greek playwright
eccentric
Calabria, southernmost Italian province
the inside
unaware of the inner workings
Odisha (formerly Orissa), eastern Indian state
to act from inside in coordination with attackers outside
Skopje, capital of North Macedonia
Wan Li (1916-2015), PRC politician
see 眼裡容不得沙子|眼里容不得沙子[yǎn lǐ róng bu dé shā zi]
cumbersome
Richmond (name)
Kiribati
ukulele (loanword)
Avebury (stone circle near Stonehenge)
Aristotle (384-322 BC), Greek philosopher
Maiduguri, city in north Nigeria
didgeridoo (loanword)
Shuili Township in Nantou County 南投縣|南投县[nán tóu xiàn], central Taiwan
(bird species of China) Daurian jackdaw (Coloeus dauuricus)
Harrison Schmitt (Apollo 17 astronaut)
Middlebury (College)
Muli Tibetan autonomous county in Liangshan Yi autonomous prefecture 涼山彞族自治州|凉山彝族自治州[liáng shān yí zú zì zhì zhōu], south Sichuan
Ilyich or Illich (name)
the slightest difference leads to a huge error (idiom)
lit. a needle concealed in silk floss (idiom)
Mauritania
Longli county in Qiannan Buyei and Miao autonomous prefecture 黔南州[qián nán zhōu], Guizhou
Lyon, French city on the Rhône
Almería
Shuili Township in Nantou County 南投縣|南投县[nán tóu xiàn], central Taiwan
person from the same village, town or province
Evangelista Torricelli (1608-1647), Italian physicist, colleague of Galileo
potherb mustard
Rivaldo
Prosper Mérimée (1803-1870), French scholar and writer, author of novel Carmen on which Bizet based his opera
Calgary, largest city of Alberta, Canada
a thousand miles
to take sth to heart
Tengger Desert
goose feather sent from afar (idiom); a trifling present with a weighty thought behind it
inner tube (of tire)
Knowledge comes from books and from experience of the world. (idiom)
Brittany (France)
lanes and alleys
Zheng Yili (1906-2002), translator, editor and lexicographer, creator of the Zheng coding
inside front cover (sometimes refers to both inside front and inside back covers)
calorie (loanword)
(slang) (fig.) to court death (derived from 找死[zhǎo sǐ] via its near homophone 照屎[zhào shǐ])
the Tarim Basin in southern Xinjiang
Alishan Township in Chiayi County 嘉義縣|嘉义县[jiā yì xiàn], within the Alishan Range, south-central Taiwan
Musudan-ri, North Korean rocket launch site in North Hamgyeong Province 咸鏡北道|咸镜北道[xián jìng běi dào]
hentai
Limerick, Ireland
lit. ninety li is merely a half of a hundred li journey (idiom)
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
Castries, capital of Saint Lucia
(Warren) Christopher
Tripoli, capital of Libya
Santorini (volcanic island in the Aegean sea)
(Newt) Gingrich
lit. the meat falls apart as it stews, but it all stays in the pot (idiom)
embrace
Merriam-Webster (dictionary)
Rio Grande (Brasil)
Asif Ali Zardari (1956-), Pakistani People's Party politician, widower of murdered Benazir Bhutto, president of Pakistan from 2008-2013
the slightest difference leads to a huge loss (idiom)
li (Chinese unit of length equal to 500 meters)
chest
home town; native place
Taimali township in Taitung County 臺東縣|台东县[tái dōng xiàn], southeast Taiwan
Lisbon, capital of Portugal
Patricia
Crimea
Yuanli town in Miaoli county 苗栗縣|苗栗县[miáo lì xiàn], northwest Taiwan
mouth
to coordinate outside and inside offensives (idiom)
folk songs of the state of Chu 楚國|楚国[chǔ guó]
Chelyabinsk town on the eastern flanks of Ural, on trans-Siberian railway
gaudy
Swahili (language)
Erlitou (Xia dynasty 夏朝[xià cháo] archaeological site at Yanshi 偃師|偃师[yǎn shī] in Luoyang 洛陽|洛阳[luò yáng], Henan)