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Pīnyīn Pronunciation
lí | li2
English translation
variant of
>[lí]
one hundredth
centi-
Li (c. 2000 BC), sixth of the legendary Flame Emperors 炎帝 Yán dì [Yán dì] descended from Shennong 神農
>神农 Shén nóng [Shén nóng] Farmer God, also known as Ai Āi [Āi]
one thousandth

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Number of strokes

9

Traditional form

Contains the radical

hǎn

Part of speech

Numeral / 数词 shù cí Shù cí

Learning hint

workshop

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Type

pictophonetic

Positional decomposition

厂里

Semantic compound

hǎn

Phonetic compound

Explanation

Phonosemantic compound. hǎn represents the meaning and represents the sound. Simplified form of .

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shī zhī 毫厘,差之千.

A miss is as good as a mile.

zài 巴厘岛 Bā lí Dǎo 蜜月 mì yuè shí 学会 xué huì le dài 水肺 shuǐ fèi 潜水 qiánshuǐ .

While on honeymoon in Bali, she learned to scuba dive.

我们 wǒmen 发现 fāxiàn 苯甲 gān de 这些 zhè xiē dài zài 1789厘米 límǐ - 1(5.59微米 wēi mǐ )1727厘米 límǐ - 1(5.79微米 wēi mǐ ).

We have found these bands in benzoylbenzoate to occur at 1789 cm - 1 and 1727 cm -

zhè 尺子 chǐzi shǎng yǒu 厘米 límǐ 英寸 yīng cùn èr zhǒng 刻度 kè dù .

This ruler has one scale in centimetres and another in inches.

wǎng 平底 píng dǐ 煎锅 jiān guō 倒入 yāo 1厘米 límǐ shēn de 植物油 zhí wù yóu

Pour the vegetable oil into a frying pan to a depth of about 1cm.

Words with

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FrequencySimplifiedMeaningTraditional
centi-
厘米 límǐ centimeter釐米
巴厘岛 Bā lí Dǎo Bali (island in Indonesia)巴厘島
厘清 lí qīng clarification釐清
公厘 gōng lí millimeter公釐
巴厘 Bā lí Bali (island province of Indonesia)巴厘 Bā lí
立方厘米 lì fāng lí mǐ cubic centimeter立方釐米
厘金 lí jīn a form of transit taxation in China introduced to finance armies to suppress the Taiping Rebellion厘金 lí jīn
毫厘不爽 háo lí bù shuǎng not to deviate an iota (idiom)毫釐不爽

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Decomposition

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Compounds

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