Chinese symbol for “li”
市里
shì lǐ
li (Chinese unit of length equal to 500 meters)
The closest CC-CEDICT match for li is 市里 (shì lǐ), defined as: li (Chinese unit of length equal to 500 meters).
Before using these characters for a tattoo, check them with a native speaker. Dictionary words often have several meanings, and the right choice depends on context.
Characters and stroke order
Other Chinese words for “li”
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 华里 (華里) | huá lǐ | li (Chinese unit of distance) |
| 市厘 | shì lí | li (Chinese unit of length equal to ⅓ millimeter) |
Related words
Other words that share a character with 市里.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 城市 | chéng shì | city; town; measure word: 座 (zuò) |
| 市场 (市場) | shì chǎng | marketplace; market; bazaar; (economics) market |
| 市长 (市長) | shì zhǎng | mayor |
| 上市 | shàng shì | to hit the market (of a new product); to float (a company on the stock market) |
| 市民 | shì mín | city resident; townspeople |
| 市区 (市區) | shì qū | urban district; downtown |
| 这里 (這裏) | zhè lǐ | variant of 这里 (zhè lǐ) |
| 哪里 (哪裏) | nǎ lǐ | where?; somewhere |
See also: Japanese symbol for “li”.
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.
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