里

inside, in

No. 72 most used · 0.41% of everyday spoken Chinese: about 1 character in every 242.

How it's built

• 田field
• 土earth

A way to remember it

Fields (田) and earth (土): a village, and what's inside it.

Words

• 这里

  zhè lǐ

  here
• 那里

  nà li

  there; that place
• 哪里

  nǎ lǐ

  where?; somewhere; anywhere
• 里面

  lǐ miàn

  inside; interior; also pr. [li3 mian5]
• 家里

  jiā lǐ

  home
• 心里

  xīn li

  chest; heart; mind

Sentences

• 为什么我还在这里？

  wèi shén me wǒ hái zài zhè lǐ

  Why am I still here?
• 你为什么不在里面？

  nǐ wèi shén me bú zài lǐ miàn

  Why aren't you in there?
• 你家人还在那里吗？

  nǐ jiā rén hái zài nà li ma

  Is your family still there?
• 你家里人都还好吗？

  nǐ jiā lǐ rén dōu hái hǎo ma

  How is your family?

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How often characters are written: wordfreq by Robyn Speer, CC BY-SA 4.0, with data from Google Books Ngrams and SUBTLEX by Marc Brysbaert and others. Meanings: CC-CEDICT, CC BY-SA 4.0. Sentences: Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR. How often they're said: FrequencyWords and OPUS, from OpenSubtitles.