里
lilǐ HSK1

village

里 裡 li frequency
variant 裏
in locative
suffix used after nouns or time words to indicate location, time, or scope

有人住在那房子里吗？

yǒu rén zhù zài nà fáng​zi li ma?

Does anyone live in that house?

她在学校里没有朋友。

tā zài xué​xiào li méi​yǒu péng​you.

She has no friends at school.

[infix]
(bound form) filler syllable used in certain four-character descriptive words or sounds
[particle]
(archaic) sentence-final particle similar to 哩 li
里 裡 lǐ
variant 裏
inside locative
internal; interior; inside
lining noun
the inner layer of a garment or fabric
里 lǐ
li noun
unit of distance, currently standardized as 500 meters or half a kilometer; historically approximately 300 or 360 paces
neighborhood noun
residential area; neighborhood; lane or alleyway
hometown
one's native place or home village
Li
surname Li
administrative unit
basic-level administrative division in Taiwan, below a township 镇 zhèn or district, and above a neighborhood 邻 lín

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Frequency
Character
Written text
50th most common 2779.2 per million
Movie subtitles
43rd most common 4071.1 per million appears in 100% of films
Word
Movie subtitles
1886.2 per million appears in 99% of films
Written text
1030.2 per million

Details
HSK 2.0
Level 1
HSK 3.0
Level 1
Traditional
裡裏
Strokes
7
Unicode
U+91CC

Sources
Frequency data
MTSU Chinese text computingSUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)