那里
nà li
In real, traceable use. Part of the curated seed collection; community review is coming.
Traditional: 那裡
There, that place: somewhere away from the speaker. Like 这里, it can be the subject (那里很冷 'it's cold there') or follow 在: 在那里 'over there'. 那儿 means the same in everyday northern speech. 里 has a neutral tone in this word: nàli.
Đó, chỗ kia: nơi ở xa người nói. Có thể làm chủ ngữ (那里很冷: ở đó lạnh lắm) hoặc đứng sau 在 (在那里: ở đằng kia). Nghĩa như 那儿 trong khẩu ngữ miền Bắc Trung Quốc. Chữ 里 ở đây đọc thanh nhẹ: nàli.
PronounRegister: 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 “那里” mean?
There, that place: somewhere away from the speaker. Like 这里, it can be the subject (那里很冷 'it's cold there') or follow 在: 在那里 'over there'. 那儿 means the same in everyday northern speech. 里 has a neutral tone in this word: nàli.
Is “那里” formal or informal?
那里 is generally neutral.