Radical 166
Chinese character radical
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::summary Chinese character radical ::
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| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| 166 | uni |
| meaning | village, li (distance unit) |
| pny | lǐ |
| bopo | ㄌㄧˇ |
| wade | li3 |
| jyutping | lei5 |
| yale | lei5 |
| onyomi | リ ri |
| kunyomi | さと sato |
| jp | 里/さと sato |
| (Left) 里偏/さとへん satohen | |
| hang | 마을 maeul |
| hanja | 리 ri |
| hanviet | lý, lí |
| :: |
|166|uni=91CC |meaning= village, li (distance unit) |pny= lǐ |bopo= ㄌㄧˇ |wade= li3 |jyutping= lei5 |yale= lei5 |cn= |onyomi= リ ri |kunyomi= さと sato |jp= 里/さと sato (Left) 里偏/さとへん satohen |hang= 마을 maeul |hanja= 리 ri |hanviet= lý, lí
Radical 166 or radical village (里部) meaning "village" or "li" (a traditional Chinese unit of distance) is one of the 20 Kangxi radicals (214 radicals in total) composed of 7 strokes.
In the Kangxi Dictionary, there are 14 characters (out of 49,030) to be found under this radical.
里 is also the 157th indexing component in the Table of Indexing Chinese Character Components predominantly adopted by Simplified Chinese dictionaries published in mainland China.
In Simplified Chinese, 裏 or 裡 which mean "inside" is merged to 里.
Evolution
File:里-bronze.svg|Bronze script character File:里-seal.svg|Small seal script character
Derived characters
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| Strokes | Characters |
|---|---|
| +0 | 里 (also SC form of 裏/裡 - 衣) |
| +2 | 重 |
| +4 | 野 |
| +5 | 量 |
| +11 | 釐 |
| :: |
Sinogram
The radical is also used as an independent Chinese character. It is one of the Kyōiku kanji or Kanji taught in elementary school in Japan. It is a second grade kanji.
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