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公里

gōng lǐ

Old HSK 4 HSK 3.0 level 4 2-character word

公里 (gōng lǐ) means "kilometer". It is an HSK 3.0 level 4 word, and was HSK 4 in the old six-level list.

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

Where 公里 is taught

In the GraphChinese course it is part of Numbers, fractions & finance (HSK 4), each one a topic in the dependency graph of HSK 1–6 that opens only once its prerequisites are solid.

Go deeper

• Every HSK 4 word, with the rest of its level.
• The four tones and the neutral tone, to read gōng lǐ correctly.
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