inside

Variant form of . Phonosemantic compound. represents the meaning and represents the sound.

Components
里 sound component

  Sound component

  

village

衣 meaning component

  Meaning component

  

clothes

Evolution

裏 Bronze script Mid Western Zhou (~900 BC)

Bronze script

Mid Western Zhou (~900 BC)
裏 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
裏 Clerical script Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)

Clerical script

Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)
裏 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

 

inside, interior, within

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variant of |[lǐ]

Most common words with 裏
Freq.
Word
Meaning

inside

这里

here

那里

there

哪里

where?

里面

inside