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里 — lining; interior; inside

lining; interior; inside; internal

Pinyin
lǐ · Lǐ
Strokes
7
HSK level
HSK 1
Handwriting
recognition only

This character has more than one reading — lǐ, Lǐ — and the pronunciation depends on the word it appears in. The list below gives the syllabus reading for each word.

How to write 里: 7 strokes

Each cell adds one stroke to the previous ones, with the new stroke in red. Stroke order is not decoration: it sets the proportions of the character and makes handwriting legible to a reader. The syllabus asks you to recognise this character rather than write it by hand.

里 — 7 strokes, in writing order from left to right.

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Words with 里 in the HSK syllabus: 11

Every word in the official 2026 syllabus that contains this character, with the level it is introduced at. Learning a character pays off through these: each one combines with the characters you already know.

  1. 里lǐlining; interior; inside; internalHSK 1
  2. 哪里nǎlǐwhere?; somewhere; anywhere; wherever; nowhereHSK 1
  3. 那里nàlǐthere; that placeHSK 1
  4. 这里zhèlǐhereHSK 1
  5. 里面lǐmiàninside; interiorHSK 2
  6. 心里xīnlǐchest; heart; mindHSK 3
  7. 公里gōnglǐkilometerHSK 4
  8. 里头lǐtouinside; interiorHSK 5
  9. 暗地里àndìlǐsecretly; inwardly; on the slyHSK 7–9
  10. 里程碑lǐchéngbēimilestoneHSK 7–9
  11. 鹏程万里péngchéng-wànlǐthe fabled roc flies ten thousand milesHSK 7–9

Glosses come from CC-CEDICT, used under CC BY-SA 4.0, and are the dictionary’s first sense rather than a translation chosen for context.