厘 lí
- Strokes
- 9
- Radical
- 厂 — cliff
- How it's built
- Phono-semantic — one part hints at the meaning, another at the sound
厘米
límǐ
centimeter
Characters in this word
米 mǐ
- Strokes
- 6
- Radical
- 米 — rice, millet, grain
- How it's built
- Pictograph — a drawing of the thing
Example phrases
- 十厘米太短。 Shí lí mǐ tài duǎn. Ten centimeters is too short.
- 这长五厘米。 Zhè cháng wǔ lí mǐ. This is five centimeters long.
- 再量一厘米。 Zài liáng yì lí mǐ. Measure one more centimeter.