Chinese Character Wiki
裏

lǐ

inside

Variant form of 裡. Phonosemantic compound. 衤 represents the meaning and 里 represents the sound.

Components
里 sound component

里  Sound component

lǐ

  

village

衣 meaning component

衣  Meaning component

yī, yì

  

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

裏  

lǐ

inside, interior, within

里 (裏) 

lǐ

variant of 裡|里[lǐ]

Most common words with 裏
Freq.
Word
Meaning

里

inside

这里

here

那里

there

哪里

where?

里面

inside

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*m.rəʔ

liX

lǐ

inside


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 99.9680% of movies

43rd most common character in movies

50th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

13

Unicode

U+88CF

Shuowen

“裏，衣內也。从衣，里聲。”


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