厘

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What 厘 means

variant of 厘; Li (c. 2000 BC), sixth of the legendary Flame Emperors 炎帝 descended from Shennong 神农 Farmer God, also known as Ai 哀; one hundredth; centi-

Pictophonetic: semantic 厂 (workshop), phonetic 里

Made of 厂 + 里

Words with 厘

• 厘米lí mǐcentimeter
• 公厘gōng límillimeter
• 厘金lí jīna form of transit taxation in China introduced to finance armies to suppress the Taiping Rebellion
• 市厘shì líli (Chinese unit of length equal to ⅓ millimeter)
• 无厘头wú lí tóusilly talk or "mo lei tau" (Cantonese), genre of humor emerging from Hong Kong late in the 20th century
• 厘克lí kècentigram
• 厘升lí shēngcentiliter
• 厘析lí xīto analyze in detail
• 厘清lí qīngto clarify (the facts); clarification
• 析毫剖厘xī háo pōu líto analyze in the finest detail
• 立方厘米lì fāng lí mǐcubic centimeter
• 毫厘不爽háo lí bù shuǎngnot to deviate an iota (idiom); to be extremely accurate

厘 in a sentence

• 我的哥哥比我大两岁，但他却比我矮三厘米。

  wǒ de gē ge bǐ wǒ dà liǎng suì ， dàn tā què bǐ wǒ ǎi sān lí mǐ 。

  My brother is two years older than I, but he is three centimeters shorter.

• 失之毫厘，谬之千里。

  shī zhī háo lí ， miù zhī qiān lǐ 。

  Slight inattention can cause a great disaster.

Characters that sound like 厘

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