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俚

lǐ

Character

What 俚 means

1. rustic
2. vulgar
3. unrefined
4. abbr. for {俚语|lǐ yǔ}, slang

Other readings

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

• Lǐold name for the {黎|Lí} ethnic group

Example sentences

• 学习外语里的俚语很有趣。
  Xuéxí wàiyǔ lǐ de lǐyǔ hěn yǒuqù.
  It's fun to learn slang words in foreign languages.
• 因为中文的博客常常是用许多俚语写的，我往往看得不太懂，但是我还是觉得这个活动对我的中文水平有好的影响。
  Yīnwèi Zhōngwén de bókè chángcháng shì yòng xǔduō lǐyǔ xiě de, wǒ wǎngwǎng kàn de bù tài dǒng, dànshì wǒ háishi juéde zhège huódòng duì wǒ de Zhōngwén shuǐpíng yǒu hǎo de yǐngxiǎng.
  Because Chinese blogs use a lot of slang, I usually don't understand them that well, but I still think it's good for my Chinese.

Words starting with 俚

• 俚语lǐ yǔslang
• 俚谚lǐ yàncommon saying; folk proverb

Words containing 俚

• 芜俚wú lǐcoarse and vulgar
• 鄙俚bǐ lǐvulgar; philistine
• 网络俚语wǎng luò lǐ yǔInternet slang; netspeak; cyberspeak

Characters built on 里

These share the phonetic component 里 (lǐ), which is why their readings rhyme. Learning them as a family is far cheaper than learning them one at a time.

• 理lǐtexture; grain (of wood); inner essence
• 厘líone hundredth; centi-
• 哩lǐmile
• 锂lǐlithium (chemistry)
• 狸lí(bound form) used in the names of small mammals
• 鲤lǐcarp
• 娌lǐused in 妯娌

Characters that look like 俚

Easy to confuse on sight. Compare them side by side once and the pair stops costing you.

• 使shǐto make; to cause; to enable
• 便biànplain; informal; suitable
• 怪guàiodd; strange; uncanny; (bound form) monster; supernatural being; to find strange…
• 捏niēto hold between the thumb and fingers; to pinch; to mold (using the fingers)
• 狸lí(bound form) used in the names of small mammals
• 倪ní(literary) small child; (literary) limit; bound; extremity; (literary) to differentiate

Sounds the same

Read lǐ, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 里lining; interior; inside
• 理texture; grain (of wood); inner essence
• 礼gift; rite; ceremony
• 李plum
• 哩mile
• 娌used in 妯娌
• 澧Lishui River in north Hunan, flowing into Lake Dongting 洞庭湖; surname Li
• 锂lithium (chemistry)
• 鲤carp
• 豊ceremonial vessel; variant of 礼
• 醴sweet wine
• 浬nautical mile