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CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY
千里
a thousand miles
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DEFINITIONS & USAGE
Meaning and common use
01
a thousand miles
02
a thousand li (i.e. 500 kilometers)
03
a long distance
REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES
How 千里 actually appears in real sentences.
These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 千里 appears in 8 of the 89,190 sentences we searched. Sentences without a published English translation are shown in Chinese only.
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COMMON COLLOCATIONS
Words that keep company with 千里.
Counted from the same corpus: the word that most often comes directly before, and directly after, 千里.
Directly before
- 传千里3
- 隔千里1
- 邦畿千里1
- 已去千里1
Directly after
- 千里挑一1
- 千里来1
- 千里之1
ABOUT THIS ENTRY
Where this entry comes from
The HSK level, part of speech, and pronunciation come from the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus. The English definitions come from CC-CEDICT. Corpus sentences, collocations, and the frequency figure come from the Tatoeba Chinese sentence export and are counted rather than written, so nothing on this page is invented. Usage notes and the hand-written examples that appear higher up exist only for a handful of entries.
Definitions from CC-CEDICT, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Vocabulary levels and parts of speech from the HSK 3.1 syllabus. This compiled dictionary is shared under the same CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
COMMON QUESTIONS
About 千里
What does 千里 mean in Chinese?
千里 (qiānlǐ) means a thousand miles.
How do you pronounce 千里?
千里 is pronounced qiānlǐ.
Is 千里 an HSK word?
千里 is on the list of the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus.
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