Meaning

6 senses
  1. The Chinese mile, a traditional unit of distance equal to 1500 chis or 150 zhangs, now standardized as a half-kilometer (500 meters).

    лиli

  2. The Korean mile, a traditional unit of distance equivalent to about 393 m.

  3. A traditional Chinese unit of weight, equal to one-thousandth of a liang, or fifty milligrams.

  4. (Chinese)A meaningful ceremony or ritual; etiquette, behaviour.

  5. An ancient Chinese cauldron having three hollow legs.

  6. (uncountable)In solfège, the raised sixth note of a major scale (the note A-sharp in the fixed-do system).

More definitions
  • Chinese distance measure; approximately 0.5 kilometers
  • a soft silver-white univalent element of the alkali metal group; the lightest metal known; occurs in several minerals

Examples

29 sentences
  1. "What happened to Gloria?" "She got married three years ago and now she lives in Liège."

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  2. My father is Li Gang!

    Мій батько - Лі Ґан! — shanghainese

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  3. She is Li Ying.

    Це Лі Ін. — deniko

    deSie ist Li Ying. — Vortarulo

  4. My teacher is Mrs. Li.

    deMeine Lehrerin ist Frau Li. — samueldora

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  5. Wang and Li get along well.

    deWang und Li können gut miteinander. — Yorwba

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Translations

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Chinese unit of distance:

Origin

An early romanization of Chinese Mandarin 里 (lǐ). As a Korean unit, via the Yale romanizat

An early romanization of Chinese Mandarin 里 (lǐ). As a Korean unit, via the Yale romanization of Korean 리 (ri), from the Chinese distance.

From Mandarin 市厘 (lí).

From Mandarin 禮 /礼 (lǐ).

From Mandarin 鬲 (lì).

Altered from la, with the vowel changed to signify a raised note.

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Forms

plural: lis / li
Singularli
Plurallis / li

regular

Synonyms

9 synonyms
Close in meaning
  • a soft silver-white univalent element of the alkali metal group; the lightest metal known; occurs in several minerals:lithiumatomic number 3

See also

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