Mnemonic comic for 里
Mnemonic
Mnemonic symbol: a sunflower. The 田 part looks like the blossom and 土 looks like the stem and leaves. Li Qingzhao (li) wants to put up a field (田) inside (里) the space station's living room (Ø3). First she puts some earth (土) here and there, and then she plants lots of sunflowers (里).
All translations for 里
lining / interior / inside / internal / also written 裏|里[li3]
li, ancient measure of length, approx. 500 m / neighborhood / ancient administrative unit of 25 families / (Tw) borough, administrative unit between the township 鎮|镇[zhen4] and neighborhood 鄰|邻[lin2] levels
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Uploaded by https://openclipart.org/artist/johnny_automatic to https://openclipart.org/detail/7097/sunflower. Thanks Johnny!
Matthias, 6 months ago
里 character breakdown
earth / dust / clay / local / indigenous / crude opium / unsophisticated / one of the eight categories of ancient musical instruments 八音[ba1 yin1]
Characters with 里 as component
lining / interior / inside / internal / also written 裏|里[li3]
field / plain / open space / limit / boundary / rude / feral
to wind around / to wrap round / to coil / tangle / to involve / to bother / to annoy
Li (c. 2000 BC), sixth of the legendary Flame Emperors 炎帝[Yan2 di4] descended from Shennong 神農|神农[Shen2 nong2] Farmer God, also known as Ai 哀[Ai1]
Words with 里
make light of traveling a thousand li / go to the trouble of traveling a long distance
Pericles (c. 495-429 BC), Athenian strategist and politician before and at the start of the Peloponnesian war
folk songs of the state of Chu 楚國|楚国[Chu3 guo2] / popular art forms (cf. 陽春白雪|阳春白雪[yang2 chun1 bai2 xue3], highbrow art forms)
Erlitou (Xia dynasty 夏朝[Xia4 chao2] archaeological site at Yanshi 偃師|偃师[Yan3 shi1] in Luoyang 洛陽|洛阳[Luo4 yang2], Henan)
orange jasmine (Murraya paniculata) / "chicken butt", popular Taiwan snack on a stick, made of marinated "white cut chicken" butt