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Chinese
| ocean; sea | li, a Chinese unit of length | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| simp. and trad. (海里) |
海 | 里 | |
| alternative forms | 海浬 海哩 | ||
| anagram | 里海 | ||
Pronunciation
- Mandarin
- Cantonese
- (Guangzhou–Hong Kong, Jyutping): hoi2 lei5
- (Taishan, Wiktionary): hoi2 lei4
- Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): hái-lí
- Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)+
- Hanyu Pinyin: hǎilǐ
- Zhuyin: ㄏㄞˇ ㄌㄧˇ
- Tongyong Pinyin: hǎilǐ
- Wade–Giles: hai3-li3
- Yale: hǎi-lǐ
- Gwoyeu Romatzyh: haelii
- Palladius: хайли (xajli)
- Sinological IPA (key): /xaɪ̯²¹⁴⁻³⁵ li²¹⁴⁻²¹⁽⁴⁾/
- (Standard Chinese)+
- Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)+
- Jyutping: hoi2 lei5
- Yale: hói léih
- Cantonese Pinyin: hoi2 lei5
- Guangdong Romanization: hoi2 léi5
- Sinological IPA (key): /hɔːi̯³⁵ lei̯¹³/
- (Taishanese, Taicheng)
- Wiktionary: hoi2 lei4
- Sinological IPA (key): /hᵘɔi⁵⁵ lei²¹/
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)+
- Southern Min
Noun
海里
- nautical mile
- 1958, State Council of the People's Republic of China, “Declaration of the Government of the People's Republic of China on the Territorial Sea”, in Gazette of the State Council of the People's Republic of China, page 639:
Synonyms
- 浬 (lǐ)
Japanese
| Kanji in this term | |
|---|---|
| 海 | 里 |
| かい Grade: 2 |
り Grade: 2 |
| on'yomi | |
| Alternative spellings |
|---|
| 海里 (kyūjitai) 海哩 浬 |
Etymology
Calque of English nautical mile, formed as a compound of 海 (kai, “sea, ocean”) + 里 (ri, “league, unit of distance”). First appears in 1872.
Also encountered in some historical texts with the kanji spelling 海哩, using the alternative 哩 (ri, “mile”) character.
Pronunciation
Noun
- a nautical mile: the length of roughly one minute of latitude, 1,852 meters
See also
- ノット (notto): a knot, a unit of speed equivalent to one nautical mile per hour
References
- ^ Shōgaku Tosho (1988) 国語大辞典（新装版） (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Shogakukan, →ISBN
- ^ Shōgaku Tosho (1988) 国語大辞典（新装版） (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Shogakukan, →ISBN entry for 航程 (kōtei, “travel by ship”) here, containing a sample sentence from 1901 using this 海哩 spelling
- ^ Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 (in Japanese), Third edition, Tokyo: Sanseidō, →ISBN
Korean
| Hanja in this term | |
|---|---|
| 海 | 里 |
Noun
- hanja form? of 해리 (“nautical mile”)
Vietnamese
| chữ Hán Nôm in this term | |
|---|---|
| 海 | 里 |
Noun
海里
- chữ Hán form of hải lý (“nautical mile”)