裡

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See also: 裏 and 里
裡 U+88E1, 裡
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-88E1
← 裠
 		CJK Unified Ideographs 裢 →
裡 U+F9E8, 裡
CJK COMPATIBILITY IDEOGRAPH-F9E8
← 裏
 		CJK Compatibility Ideographs 里 →

Translingual

Traditional 裡
Simplified 里
Japanese 裏
Korean 裏

Han character

裡 (Kangxi radical 145, 衣+7, 13 strokes, cangjie input 中田土 (LWG), four-corner 36214, composition ⿰衤里)

References

  • Kangxi Dictionary: not present, would follow page 1118, character 13
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 34295
  • Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 5, page 3094, character 3
  • Unihan data for U+88E1

Chinese

trad. 裡/裏
simp. 里*

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (里) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
埋 *mrɯː
霾 *mrɯː
薶 *mrɯː
榸 *ʔr'ɯː
厘 *rɯ
狸 *rɯ
貍 *p·rɯ
梩 *rɯ
艃 *rɯ
里 *rɯʔ
理 *rɯʔ
鯉 *rɯʔ
俚 *rɯʔ
悝 *rɯʔ, *km̥ʰlɯː
娌 *rɯʔ
裏 *rɯʔ
荲 *r̥ʰɯɡ, *l̥ʰuɡ, *hluɡ

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *rɯʔ) : semantic 衤 (“clothes”) + phonetic 里 (OC *rɯʔ), rearrangement of 裏.

Pronunciation

Note:
  • leoi5 - vernacular (“in; inside; during; place”);
  • lei5 - literary (“lining”, also dated reading of leoi5).
Note:
  • Sixian:
    • tî - “in; during”.
  • Meixian:
    • li2 - literary;
    • di1 - vernacular.
Note:
  • dǐ - vernacular;
  • lǐ - literary.
Note:
  • diē - vernacular;
  • lī - literary.
Note: lí - “lining”.
Rime
Character 裡
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 來 (37)
Final (韻) 之 (19)
Tone (調) Rising (X)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) III
Fanqie 良士切
Baxter liX
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang 		/lɨX/
Pan
Wuyun 		/lɨX/
Shao
Rongfen 		/lieX/
Edwin
Pulleyblank 		/lɨX/
Li
Rong 		/liəX/
Wang
Li 		/lĭəX/
Bernard
Karlgren 		/liX/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex 		lǐ
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex 		lei5
Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 裡
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin) 		lǐ
Middle
Chinese 		‹ liX ›
Old
Chinese 		/*m.rəʔ/
English inside

Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter–Sagart system:

* Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence;
* Square brackets "" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. * as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p;
* Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix;
* Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary;

* Period "." indicates syllable boundary.
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character 裡
Reading # 1/1
No. 7832
Phonetic
component 		里
Rime
group 		之
Rime
subdivision 		0
Corresponding
MC rime 		里
Old
Chinese 		/*rɯʔ/

Definitions

裡

  1. (postpositional) in; inside
    誰在這房間裡？／谁在这房间里？  ―  Shéi zài zhè fángjiān lǐ?  ―  Who is inside this room?
  2. (postpositional) during; within
    暑假裡／暑假里  ―  shǔjiǎ lǐ  ―  during the summer holidays
  3. Indicates a place.
    這裡／这里  ―  zhèlǐ  ―  here
    那裡／那里  ―  nàlǐ  ―  there
    哪裡／哪里  ―  nǎlǐ  ―  where
  4. interior; inside
  5. lining

Synonyms

  • (Cantonese) 度 (dou6)
  • (Hokkien) 內／内 (lāi)
  • (Teochew) 底 (doi2)

Descendants

  • Wutunhua: -li

Compounds

Japanese

Kanji

裡

(“Jinmeiyō” kanji used for names)

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Readings

  • On (unclassified): り (ri)
  • Kun: うら (ura); うち (uchi)

Korean

Hanja

裡 (eumhun 속 리 (sok ri), South Korea 속 이 (sok i))

  1. Alternative form of 裏

Vietnamese

Han character

裡: Hán Nôm readings: lí

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