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千里
qiānlǐ
Main
English Definitiona thousand miles; a thousand li (i.e. 500 kilometers); a long distance
Simplified Script千里
Traditional ScriptSame
Pinyinqiānlǐ
Effective Pinyin
(After Tone Sandhi)		Same
Zhuyin (Bopomofo)ㄑㄧㄢ ㄌㄧˇ
Cantonese (Jyutping)cin1lei5
Word Decomposition
千qiānthousand
里lǐli, ancient measure of length, approx. 500 m; neighborhood; ancient administrative unit of 25 families; (Tw) borough, administrative unit between the township 镇 and neighborhood 邻 levels; Li (surname)

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Words With Same Head Word    
千万qiānwànten million; countless; many; one must by all means
千瓦qiānwǎkilowatt (unit of electric power)
千方百计qiān fāng bǎi jìlit. thousand ways, a hundred plans (idiom); by every possible means
千克qiānkèkilogram
千瓦时qiānwǎ shíKilowatt hour
Words With Same Tail Word    
公里gōnglǐkilometer
邻里línlǐneighbor; neighborhood
村里cūnlǐvillage; hamlet
平方公里píngfāng gōnglǐsquare kilometer
阿里ālǐAli (proper name); Imam Ali ibn Abu Talib (c. 600-661), cousin, aid and son-in-law of the Prophet Mohammed 穆罕默德, the fourth Caliph 哈里发 of Islam, reigned 656-661, and the first Imam 伊玛目 of Shia Islam; Ngari prefecture in Tibet, Tibetan: Mnga' ris
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