Chinese symbol for “centimeter”
厘米
lí mǐ
Traditional: 釐米
centimeter
The closest CC-CEDICT match for centimeter is 厘米 (lí mǐ), defined as: centimeter.
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Characters and stroke order
Traditional forms
Other Chinese words for “centimeter”
Related words
Other words that share a character with 厘米.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 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 |
| 毫米 | háo mǐ | millimeter |
| 平方千米 | píng fāng qiān mǐ | square kilometer |
| 玉米 | yù mǐ | corn; maize |
See also: Japanese symbol for “centimeter”.
Data: CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0); Unihan Database (Unicode License v3); Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License (graphics.txt); LGPL-3.0-or-later (dictionary.txt)); wordfreq (CC BY-SA 4.0 (data)). Retrieved 2026-10-22.