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浬

lǐ
measure word #54,924

Meanings

  1. 1 nautical mile (an older single-character writing of 海里)

Examples

HSK 6
船离港口还有大约三十海里。
Chuán lí gǎngkǒu hái yǒu dàyuē sānshí hǎilǐ.
The ship is still about thirty nautical miles from the harbor.

Tips

history
浬 was a single-character writing of 'nautical mile', combining the water radical 氵 with 里 (the land mile). Modern Chinese has replaced it with the two-character 海里; you rarely see 浬 outside older nautical writing.
register
Archaic and technical. Use 海里 in modern Chinese.

Components

radical
氵 shuǐ
water
The three-drop water radical 氵 (left-side form of 水) signals that this is a distance measured at sea, not on land. It is the indexing radical.
phonetic
里 lǐ
the Chinese mile; inside
The 里 element gives both the sound and the 'distance unit' sense; the water radical turns the land 里 into a sea mile.

No stroke data for 浬; the glyph shown is your device font, so component strokes can't be highlighted.

Stroke Order

浬 lǐ