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厘米

lí mǐ

Old HSK 5 HSK 3.0 level 5 2-character word Traditional 釐米

厘米 (lí mǐ) means "centimeter". It is an HSK 3.0 level 5 word, and was HSK 5 in the old six-level list.

What 厘米 means

1. centimeter

The characters in 厘米

• 厘líone hundredth; centi-
• 米mǐuncooked rice; meter (unit of length); (slang) Chinese yuan

Example sentences

• 我的哥哥比我大两岁，但他却比我矮三厘米。
  Wǒ de gēge bǐ wǒ dà liǎng suì, dàn tā què bǐ wǒ ǎi sān límǐ.
  My brother is two years older than I, but he is three centimeters shorter.

Words containing 厘米

• 立方厘米lì fāng lí mǐcubic centimeter

Where 厘米 is taught

In the GraphChinese course it is part of Measurement, Quantity & Units (HSK 5), each one a topic in the dependency graph of HSK 1–6 that opens only once its prerequisites are solid.

Go deeper

• Every HSK 5 word, with the rest of its level.
• The four tones and the neutral tone, to read lí mǐ correctly.
• Look up another word in the free dictionary.