市里

Chinese

		market; city	li, a Chinese unit of length
simp. and trad. (市里)		市	里

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): shìlǐ

  (Zhuyin): ㄕˋ ㄌㄧˇ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): si⁵ lei⁵

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)
    • Hanyu Pinyin: shìlǐ
    • Zhuyin: ㄕˋ ㄌㄧˇ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: shìhlǐ
    • Wade–Giles: shih⁴-li³
    • Yale: shr̀-lǐ
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: shyhlii
    • Palladius: шили (šili)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ʂʐ̩⁵¹ li²¹⁴⁻²¹⁽⁴⁾/
    • Homophones:

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• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: si⁵ lei⁵
    • Yale: síh léih
    • Cantonese Pinyin: si⁵ lei⁵
    • Guangdong Romanization: xi⁵ léi⁵
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /siː¹³ lei̯¹³/

Noun

市里

1. The traditional li or Chinese mile, a traditional Chinese unit of distance equal to 1500 chi (市尺 (shìchǐ)) or 150 zhang (市丈 (shìzhàng)), standardized in 1984 as half of a kilometer (500 meters).

Usage notes

In most contexts, this unit is simply written as 里 (lǐ). The form 市里 is encountered in modern situations where the writer wishes to be careful to distinguish the traditional li from the 公里 (gōnglǐ) or kilometer.

Synonyms

• 華里 (huálǐ)