li

Meaning

1. The Chinese mile, a traditional unit of distance equal to 1500 chis or 150 zhangs, now standardized as a half-kilometer (500 meters).
2. The Korean mile, a traditional unit of distance equivalent to about 393 m.
3. A traditional Chinese unit of weight, equal to one-thousandth of a liang, or fifty milligrams.
4. A meaningful ceremony or ritual; etiquette, behaviour.
5. An ancient Chinese cauldron having three hollow legs.
6. In solfège, the raised sixth note of a major scale (the note A-sharp in the fixed-do system).
7. Abbreviation of love interest.
8. A surname from Chinese
9. A county of Longnan, Gansu, China.
10. A river in Guangxi, China.
11. A county of Changde, Hunan, China.
12. A surname from Korean, a variant of Lee and Rhee

Etymology / origin

An early romanization of Chinese Mandarin 里 (lǐ). As a Korean unit, via the Yale romanization of Korean 리 (ri), from the Chinese distance.

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