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Meaning of 哩

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哩Polyphone (多音字)
Total strokes: 10; Radical: 口
Pictophonetic:里 indicates the sound; 口 (mouth) conveys the meaning.
Character Formation:
  • ⿰ Left to right
    • 口 [ kǒu ] mouth; entrance, gate, opening
    • 里 [ lǐ ] unit of distance equal to 0.5km; village; lane
Similar Characters: 狸 理 埋
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1
Pinyin: lǐ
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 lǐ curry (loanword)
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2
Pinyin: li
English Definition:(modal final particle similar to 呢 )
Example Words:
叽哩咕噜 jī li gū lū (onom.) to jabber; to rumble
咖哩 kā li curry (loanword)
批哩啪啦 pī li pā lā variant of 噼里啪啦
噜哩噜苏 lū li lū sū to talk unnecessarily or annoyingly; to talk endlessly (idiom)
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Example Sentences
1
比例是用一吋代表一哩
。
The scale is an inch to the mile.
2
正餐以后
,
休息片刻
;
晚餐以后
,
步行一哩
。
After dinner sit awhile, after supper walk a mile.
3
她肯定在做白日梦
,
看起来她的心思好像在一千哩以外的地方
。
Her head certainly was in the clouds--she looked like her mind was a thousand miles away.
4
她肯定在白日做梦
,
看起来她的心思好像在一千哩以外的地方
。
Her head certainly was in the clouds--she looked like her mind was a thousand miles away.
5
那年在宾夕法尼亚州三哩岛发生了美国历史上最严重的核事故
。
That was when America' s worst nuclear accident happened at the Three Mile Island center in Pennsylvania.