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Meaning of 哩

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Polyphone (多音字)
Total strokes: 10; Radical:
Pictophonetic: indicates the sound; (mouth) conveys the meaning.
Character Formation:
  • Left to right
    • [ kǒu ] mouth; entrance, gate, opening
    • [ ] unit of distance equal to 0.5km; village; lane
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Pinyin:
English Definition:mile (unit of length equal to 1,609.344 m); old form of modern 英里
Chinese Definition:
①英美制长度单位,一哩等于5280英尺,合1609米(中国大陆地区已停用此字,写作“英里”)。
Example Words:
加哩 jiā curry (loanword)
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2
Pinyin: li
English Definition:(modal final particle similar to )
Example Words:
叽哩咕噜 li (onom.) to jabber; to rumble
咖哩 li curry (loanword)
批哩啪啦 li variant of 噼里啪啦
噜哩噜苏 li to talk unnecessarily or annoyingly; to talk endlessly (idiom)
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Example Sentences
1
The scale is an inch to the mile.
2
After dinner sit awhile, after supper walk a mile.
3
Her head certainly was in the clouds--she looked like her mind was a thousand miles away.
4
Her head certainly was in the clouds--she looked like her mind was a thousand miles away.
5
That was when America' s worst nuclear accident happened at the Three Mile Island center in Pennsylvania.