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Terms

  • li (Pinyin without tones)
  • (Traditional Chinese)
  • (Simplified Chinese)
  • (Pinyin)
  • li (Wade-Giles)

Gloss

    1. a ward (Steinhardt 1990, 227) or neighborhood (Miller 2007, 32) composed of multiple smaller units. In the Zhouli 周禮 a li is a unit of 25 jia 家 ("households"), but this varies over time (e.g. 100 in the Tang dynasty; 110 in the Ming dynasty) (Hanyu dacidian; Kroll 2016, online edition); 2. a unit of length (Fu 2017, 360; Hanyu dacidian; Kroll 2016, online edition)1

    地方行政組織;一種長度單位。1

Works Cited

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  • 1 STEINHARDT. 1999. Chinese Imperial City Planning, 227.Link to Zotero Bibliographic Record; MILLER. 2007. The Divine Nature of Power: Chinese Ritual Architecture at the Sacred Site of Jinci, 32.Link to Zotero Bibliographic Record; FU. 2017. Traditional Chinese Architecture: Twelve Essays, 360.Link to Zotero Bibliographic Record; 漢語大詞典編纂処. 2011. 漢語大詞典, accessed June 6, 2022.Link to Zotero Bibliographic Record; KROLL. 2016. A Student's Dictionary of Classical and Medieval Chinese, accessed June 6, 2022.Link to Zotero Bibliographic Record

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