lǐ 里
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- li (Pinyin without tones)
- 里 (Traditional Chinese)
- 里 (Simplified Chinese)
- lǐ (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.
; MILLER. 2007. The Divine Nature of Power: Chinese Ritual Architecture at the Sacred Site of Jinci, 32.; FU. 2017. Traditional Chinese Architecture: Twelve Essays, 360.; 漢語大詞典編纂処. 2008-2011. 漢語大詞典, accessed June 6, 2022.; KROLL. 2016. A Student's Dictionary of Classical and Medieval Chinese, accessed June 6, 2022.
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里 lǐ” in Architectura Sinica last modified April 20, 2021, https://architecturasinica.org/keyword/k000087.
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