厘 — Chinese character
厘
lí
one thousandth
- Pinyin
- lí
- Radical
- 27 ⼚ (Cliff)
- Strokes
- 9
- Components
- 厂 里
- Formation
- pictophonetic — workshop; meaning component 厂; sound component 里
- Traditional
- 釐
- Japanese
- 厘 as a kanji
Common words with 厘
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 厘米 (釐米) | lí mǐ | centimeter |
| 公厘 (公釐) | gōng lí | millimeter |
| 厘清 (釐清) | lí qīng | to clarify (the facts); clarification |
| 无厘头 (無厘頭) | wú lí tóu | silly talk or "mo lei tau" (Cantonese), genre of humor emerging from Hong Kong late in the 20th century |
| 立方厘米 (立方釐米) | lì fāng lí mǐ | cubic centimeter |
| 厘金 | lí jīn | a form of transit taxation in China introduced to finance armies to suppress the Taiping Rebellion |
| 厘升 (釐升) | lí shēng | centiliter |
| 市厘 | shì lí | li (Chinese unit of length equal to ⅓ millimeter) |
| 析毫剖厘 (析毫剖釐) | xī háo pōu lí | to analyze in the finest detail |
| 梳乎厘 | shū hū lí | (HK) (loanword) soufflé |
| 梳芙厘 | shū fú lí | soufflé (loanword) |
| 毫厘不爽 (毫釐不爽) | háo lí bù shuǎng | not to deviate an iota (idiom); to be extremely accurate |
English words written with 厘
Data: Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License (graphics.txt); LGPL-3.0-or-later (dictionary.txt)); Unihan Database (Unicode License v3); CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Retrieved 2026-10-22.