厘
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one hundredth; centi-
- HSK 3.0
- Level 4
- Old HSK
- Level 5
- Strokes
- 9
- Radical
- 厂 +7
- Structure
- Upper-left enclosure 左上包
- Traditional
- 厘
- Common rank
- #2,157
- Unicode
- U+5398
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Formation & memory
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Words with 厘
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| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 失之毫厘，差之千里 | a tiny lapse can lead to a huge mistake (idiom); a minor discrepancy leading to enormous l… | |
| 差之毫厘，失之千里 | the slightest difference leads to a huge loss (idiom); a miss is as good as a mile | |
| 失之毫厘，差以千里 | a tiny lapse can lead to a huge mistake (idiom); a minor discrepancy leading to enormous l… | |
| 立方厘米 | cubic centimeter | |
| 无厘头 | silly talk or "mo lei tau" (Cantonese), genre of humor emerging from Hong Kong late in the… | |
| 车厘子 | (loanword) sweet cherry | |
| 失之毫厘，谬以千里 | a tiny lapse can lead to a huge mistake (idiom); a minor discrepancy leading to enormous l… | |
| 差之毫厘，谬以千里 | the slightest difference leads to a huge error (idiom); a miss is as good as a mile | |
| 巴厘岛 | Bali (island in Indonesia) | |
| 市厘 | li (Chinese unit of length equal to ⅓ millimeter) | |
| 厘金 | a form of transit taxation in China introduced to finance armies to suppress the Taiping R… | |
| 厘克 | centigram | |
| 公厘 | millimeter | |
| 巴厘 | Bali (island province of Indonesia) | |
| 厘清 | to clarify (the facts); clarification | |
| 厘米 | centimeter | |
| 毫厘不爽 | not to deviate an iota (idiom); to be extremely accurate | |
| 厘瓦 | centiwatt | |
| 厘升 | centiliter | |
| 析毫剖厘 | to analyze in the finest detail |
Sound family
Characters sharing the sound component 里 — compare how they read.