We're going downtown.
CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY
市里
li (Chinese unit of length equal to 500 meters)
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DEFINITIONS & USAGE
Meaning and common use
01
li (Chinese unit of length equal to 500 meters)
REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES
How 市里 actually appears in real sentences.
These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 市里 appears in 3 of the 89,190 sentences we searched.
Our football team defeated all the other teams in the city.
Fathers in cities spend eight hours in the office and another two hours traveling to and from their work on trains full of people every morning and evening.
COMMON COLLOCATIONS
Words that keep company with 市里.
Counted from the same corpus: the word that most often comes directly before, and directly after, 市里.
Directly before
- 了市里1
- 都市里1
- 去市里1
Directly after
- 市里所有1
- 市里的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 市里
What does 市里 mean in Chinese?
市里 (shìlǐ) means li (Chinese unit of length equal to 500 meters).
How do you pronounce 市里?
市里 is pronounced shìlǐ.
Is 市里 an HSK word?
市里 is on the list of the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus.
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