里
lǐ / lǐ / Lǐ / lǐEnglish Meaning
(lǐ) variant of 里 | (lǐ) lining; interior; inside; internal; also written 里 | (Lǐ) Li (surname) | (lǐ) li, 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
HSK 1
00:01
“Why on earth did you move into such an awful place?”
简外婆
“Grandma Jian.”
“Why did you move here?”
这也太破了
“It's too run-down here.”
HSK 1
00:01
“All of us are struggling and trying our best to survive through life's unpredictable hardships.”
也长不过人间那盏 不肯熄灭的灯
“(yet it can never outlast the lamp) (that never dims in human hearts.)”
“(We all struggle to survive amidst the changes,)”
在命运的窄处辗转
“(wander in the narrow corner of fate,)”
HSK 1
00:02
“They are endlessly suffering, trapped in the torment of unrequited desires and attachments.”
有人困于情爱
“(Some are trapped by love and desire,)”
“(drowning in the bitter sea of unattainable longing.)”
有人守于道
“(Some adhere to the Dao,)”
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