裏 · lǐ
inside, interior, within
Meanings & readings
Meaning & readings
inside, interior, within
- Mandarin
- lǐ
- Cantonese
- leoi5
Unihan definitions and selected character readings. Read the word to establish its pronunciation in context.
Readings in Japanese, Korean & Vietnamese
Readings recorded for 裏 in other language traditions. These are character-level records, not word translations or interchangeable pronunciations.
Japanese 日本語
Grouped by the source’s kana notation; no frequency ranking is implied.
On’yomi · katakana
Kun’yomi · hiragana
Katakana generally indicates on’yomi; hiragana generally indicates kun’yomi. The source does not identify everyday, rare, historical or name use per reading. Kana strings are preserved, including any written endings; consult a Japanese word entry for actual use.
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Korean 한국어
Hanja readings · Hangul
Source codes are separated below. They are neither sounds nor tones; a character reading alone does not specify a whole word’s pronunciation.
Go deeperNaver Hanja ↗Wiktionary ↗
Reading sources explained
- 리
- KS X 1001 (0) · Educational Hanja (E)
- 이
- KS X 1001 (0)
Vietnamese Tiếng Việt
Not recorded for this exact character in this dataset. This does not mean the language has no reading.
Form & structure
Writing & identity
- Unicode
- U+88CF
- Radical
- 衣 · 145
- Strokes
- 13 · Unihan
- Residual
- 7
Source record · Unihan 17.0. Individual senses and historical claims have not yet been reviewed by zimai.
Stroke order
13 strokesModern stroke order; regional conventions can differ. Stroke medians: Make Me a Hanzi via HanziLookupJS, drawn as an even pen line.
Graphical structure
How to read these symbols
⿰ left–right · ⿱ above–below · ⿻ overlap. Dotted boxes indicate positions, not missing characters. Each symbol describes the components that follow it; nested symbols describe a component in more detail. Source codes identify alternative analyses, not a writing sequence or an etymology.
BabelStone IDS · 2025-06-27. Region tags are preserved; 〾 marks approximation and {n} identifies an unencoded source component. These describe graphical structure, not historical derivation.
Words & connections
Words using 裏
Character connections
No reverse component match in this collection.
Component roles · attributed
- 里 sound component · CJKVI analysis
Source analysis · 里聲
Line 17279 · ⿴衣里 · 里聲 · source reference 3000090
Source analyses, kept separate from modern IDS. CJKVI labels are not individually verified historical conclusions. Evidence & limits ↗
History & distinctions
Related forms
Unihan traditional/simplified variant properties. Conversion may depend on context.
Historical readings
- Middle Chinese
- liX · 良士 反切 · #1295
Guangyun-based transcriptions · PHONO-ML · CC BY 4.0. These describe historical reading categories, not modern word pronunciation.
Source row & reading categories
CSV line 9376 · liX = 止開三上之來
Automatically generated in the source dataset; the authors checked a subset and acknowledge possible errors. All source readings are retained separately. Notation & method ↗
Sources & reference
Evidence & next depth
Retained Unihan properties
- kMandarin
- lǐ
- kCantonese
- leoi5
- kDefinition
- inside, interior, within
- kTotalStrokes
- 13
- kRSUnicode
- 145.7
- kSimplifiedVariant
- U+91CC
- kGradeLevel
- 1
Readings across dictionaries
- Hanyu Da Zidian
- lǐ 53091.060
- Xiandai Hanyu · 1983
- lǐ 0693.031 · li 0693.041
- Mandarin / Cantonese · SMSZD
- lǐ粵lei5 lǐ粵leoi5