Read Edit View history Discussion 里 lilǐ HSK1 village Origin Definitions Defs Strokes Stroke Words Sentences Sents Basic Details Gloss Iconic Gloss Original Meaning Hint 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. Pinyin Separate values with commas lǐ ×li × Add Simplified Variants Separate values with commas 里 × Add Traditional Variants Separate values with commas 裡 ×裏 ×里 × Add Variant Of Components Character ◎ Hint Type meaning sound iconic remnant simplified deleted distinguishing unknown Old pronunciation From original meaning Glyph changed 里 Simp strokes 里 Trad strokes Character ◎ Hint Type meaning sound iconic remnant simplified deleted distinguishing unknown Old pronunciation From original meaning Glyph changed 里 Simp strokes 里 Trad strokes + Add component Stroke Data 里 Stroke Data (Simp) — JSON { "source": "dong", "medians": [ [ [ 241, 716 ], [ 270, 697 ], [ 295, 663 ], [ 336, 461 ], [ 362, 387 ] ], [ [ 292, 713 ], [ 330, 700 ], [ 662, 750 ], [ 706, 750 ], [ 727, 744 ], [ 760, 705 ], [ 710, 535 ], [ 669, 431 ], [ 672, 398 ] ], [ [ 398, 560 ], [ 561, 589 ], [ 602, 592 ], [ 626, 586 ] ], [ [ 380, 432 ], [ 392, 421 ], [ 635, 458 ] ], [ [ 461, 698 ], [ 501, 674 ], [ 508, 618 ], [ 498, 142 ], 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