Dong Chinese dictionary

lǐ

village

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

Components

田 Meaning component

tián

field

土 Meaning component

tǔ

earth

Evolution

Bronze script

Early Western Zhou (~1000 BC)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)

Clerical script

Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)

Regular script

Modern

Definitions

里 (裡)

lǐ

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

里

Lǐ

Li (surname)

里

lǐ

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

里 (裏)

lǐ

variant of 裡|里[lǐ]

Most common words with 里