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万里

wàn lǐ

2-character word Traditional 萬里

What 万里 means

1. far away
2. thousands of miles; 10,000 li

Other readings

万里 is 多音字 — it is read more than one way, and the reading changes the meaning.

• Wàn LǐWan Li (1916-2015), PRC politician

The characters in 万里

• 万wànten thousand; a great number
• 里lǐlining; interior; inside

Example sentences

• 天上万里无云。
  Tiānshàng wànlǐ wú yún.
  Not a single cloud could be seen in the sky.
• 中国与蒙古隔着万里长城。
  Zhōngguó yǔ Měnggǔ gé zhe Wànlǐ Chángchéng.
  China and Mongolia are separated by the Great Wall of China.
• 马力欧在五天内走完万里长城。
  Mario finished walking along the Great Wall of China in five days.
• 老实说，世界在运转，有用的人万里挑一。
  To be honest, as this world goes, is to be one man picked out of ten thousand.
• 我们离开时下着雨；我们到达时晴空万里。
  It was raining when we left; it was sunny when we arrived.
• 那是 2025 年 4 月 26 日。下午两点前，阳光明媚，万里无云。我来到我家附近的死胡同，静静地漫步。我欣赏着花园，这让我想起了道家思想：人如何影射天：樱花的簇簇花海，如同远处的星云。人其实不必走太远。我的白人邻居芭芭拉正站在她家车道上。她和丈夫肯恩正要出门去买鸡蛋。他们家很爱吃鸡蛋。
  It's the 26th of April of 2025. Before 14:00, a sunny blue-sky afternoon, I went to my neighbourhood's cul-de-sac to meditatively walk around and around there. I admired the gardens. They reminded me of Daoism: how the microcosm reflects the macrocosm: The puffs of sakura would be a nebula afar. One need not really travel too far. Barb my white neighbour was at her driveway. She and her husband Ken would be going out to buy eggs. They eat many eggs.

Words starting with 万里

• 万里长城Wàn lǐ Cháng chéngthe Great Wall
• 万里无云wàn lǐ wú yúncloudless
• 万里江山wàn lǐ jiāng shānlit. ten thousand miles of rivers and mountains; a vast territory (idiom)
• 万里迢迢wàn lǐ tiáo tiáo(adverbial phrase used with verbs such as 归
• 万里长江Wàn lǐ Cháng jiāngChangjiang River; Yangtze River

Words containing 万里

• 晴空万里qíng kōng wàn lǐa clear and boundless sky
• 鹏程万里péng chéng wàn lǐthe fabled roc flies ten thousand miles (idiom); one's future prospects are brilliant
• 行万里路胜读万卷书xíng wàn lǐ lù shèng dú wàn juàn shūto travel a thousand miles beats reading a thousand books
• 读万卷书，行万里路dú wàn juàn shū , xíng wàn lǐ lù(lit.) read ten thousand books and travel ten thousand miles (idiom)…