Meaning
one thousandth
Hear the Four Tones
The same syllable “li” becomes a different word in each tone. 厘 is the 2nd tone. Tap any tone to hear a native voice and see its pitch shape.
Stroke Order
Tap Animate to watch the strokes in order, or Practice to trace it yourself.
Common Words
- 厘米lí mǐcentimeter
- 公厘gōng límillimeter
- 市厘shì líli (Chinese unit of length equal to ⅓ millimeter)
- 厘金lí jīna form of transit taxation in China introduced to finance armies to suppress the Taiping Rebellion
- 厘克lí kècentigram
Example Sentence
这条线段大约长三厘米。Zhè tiáo xiàn duàn dà yuē cháng sān lí mǐ.This line segment is about three centimeters long.
这Zhèthis条tiáostrip线段xiàn duànline segment大约dà yuēapproximately长三cháng sānhigh-class prostitute厘米lí mǐcentimeter。