哩

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哩 U+54E9, 哩
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-54E9
← 哨
 		CJK Unified Ideographs 哪 →

Translingual

Han character

哩 (Kangxi radical 30, 口+7, 10 strokes, cangjie input 口田土 (RWG), four-corner 66014, composition ⿰口里)

Derived characters

References

  • Kangxi Dictionary: page 190, character 16
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 3649
  • Dae Jaweon: page 409, character 32
  • Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 1, page 629, character 3
  • Unihan data for U+54E9

Chinese

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simp. and trad.
 哩

Glyph origin

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声) : semantic 口 (“mouth”) + phonetic 里 (OC *rɯʔ)

Etymology

The Min Nan form is borrowed from English mile.

Pronunciation 1

Definitions

哩

  1. (archaic) mile
    See also: 英里

Pronunciation 2

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Definitions

哩 (Wu)

  1. Used to indicate an interrogative perfective aspect.
    儂火阿曾生哩？ [Shanghainese, trad.]
    侬火阿曾生哩？ [Shanghainese, simp.]
    From: 2010, Qian Nairong, 《從〈滬語便商〉所見的老上海話時態》 (Tenses and Aspects? Old Shanghainese as Found in the Book Huyu Bian Shang)
    Did you start the fire?
Usage notes

Pronunciation 3

Definitions

哩

  1. (at the end of declarative sentence) Used to indicate continuation of a state or action.
    Synonym: 呢
  2. Placed after each item of a list
    Synonym: 啦
  3. (a phonetic component)
    哩哩啦啦 (līlilālā)
    哩哩囉囉／哩哩啰啰 (līliluōluō) or 哩哩羅羅／哩哩罗罗 (līliluōluō)

Pronunciation 4

Definitions

哩

  1. (Dungan) Marks the perfective aspect.

Pronunciation 5

Definitions

哩

  1. a meaningless particle (clarification of this definition is needed) (Can we add an example for this sense?)

Pronunciation 6

Definitions

哩

  1. Only used in 哩伽塔.

Compounds

Japanese

Kanji

哩

(“Jinmeiyō” kanji used for names)

  1. mile

Readings

Etymology

Kanji in this term
哩
まいる
Jinmeiyō
(ateji)
kun’yomi

From English mile. This kanji is an ateji.

Noun

哩(マイル) • (mairu) 

  1. mile (mi)

Korean

Hanja

哩 (eum 리 (ri))

  1. mile

Vietnamese

Han character

哩: Hán Nôm readings: rị, ré, lí, rí

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