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公里

gōng lǐ

HSK 4 2-character word

What 公里 means

1. kilometer

The characters in 公里

• 公gōngpublic; collectively owned; common
• 里lǐlining; interior; inside

Example sentences

• 我们跑了三公里。
  Wǒmen pǎo le sān gōnglǐ.
  We ran three kilometers.
• 我今天走了十公里
  Today I walked 10 kilometers.
• 老人试图游5公里。
  The old man attempted to swim five kilometers.
• 今天我走了10公里。
  Jīntiān wǒ zǒu le 10 gōnglǐ.
  I walked 10 kilometers today.
• 那条河长300公里。
  The river is 300 kilometers in length.
• 今儿我走了10公里路。
  Jīnr wǒ zǒu le 10 gōnglǐ lù.
  I walked 10 kilometers today.

Words containing 公里

• 平方公里píng fāng gōng lǐsquare kilometer
• 吨公里dūn gōng lǐton-kilometer (unit of capacity of transport system)

Sounds the same

Read gōng lǐ, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 公理self-evident truth; (math) axiom