里
lǐ
In real, traceable use. Part of the curated seed collection; community review is coming.
Traditional: 裡
In, inside: the space within something. Like 上 and 下, it comes after the noun: 房间里 'in the room', 杯子里 'in the cup', 车里 'in the car'. The same simplified character also writes a different word, the li, an old Chinese measure of distance of about half a kilometre.
Trong, bên trong: khoảng không gian bên trong một vật. Đứng sau danh từ, ngược với tiếng Việt: 房间里 là “trong phòng”, 杯子里 là “trong cốc”, 车里 là “trong xe”. Chữ giản thể 里 còn viết một từ khác: dặm, đơn vị đo đường cũ của Trung Quốc, khoảng nửa cây số.
NounRegister: neutral
Examples
Editorial example (illustrative, not a corpus attestation) — awaiting a native-speaker check
Sources & notes
Hán-Việt bridge batch 064 (2026-11-14). Headword, Traditional form and pinyin checked against CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0) source ↗ · Hán-Việt reading: Unihan kVietnamese source ↗ ; en.wiktionary Vietnamese entries via kaikki.org extract, snapshot 2026-07-31 (CC BY-SA 4.0): Hán-Việt reading 里/裡 = lí · No Vietnamese entry is linked as its twin; the Hán-Việt reading is given character by character. Definition, literal gloss and example sentence are original; the example has not had a native-speaker check yet.
Common questions
What does “里” mean?
In, inside: the space within something. Like 上 and 下, it comes after the noun: 房间里 'in the room', 杯子里 'in the cup', 车里 'in the car'. The same simplified character also writes a different word, the li, an old Chinese measure of distance of about half a kilometre.
Is “里” formal or informal?
里 is generally neutral.