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喱

lí

Character

What 喱 means

1. grain (unit of weight, approx. 0.065 grams)
2. Taiwan pr. lǐ

Example sentences

• 我昨晚吃了咖喱。
  Wǒ zuówǎn chī le gālí.
  I had curry last night.

Words containing 喱

• 咖喱gā lí(loanword) curry
• 咖喱粉gā lí fěncurry powder
• 啫喱zhě lí(loanword) jelly; gel

Characters that look like 喱

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

• 喔ō(interjection) oh; I see (used to indicate realization, understanding)
• 锥zhuīcone; awl; to bore
• 锤chuíhammer; to hammer into shape; weight (e.g. of a steelyard or balance)
• 塘tángdyke; embankment; pool or pond
• 崛juétowering as a peak
• 琥hǔused in 琥珀

Sounds the same

Read lí, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 离to leave; to part from; to be away from
• 璃(phonetic character used in transliteration of foreign names); Taiwan pr. lì; variant of 璃
• 厘one hundredth; centi-
• 梨pear
• 黎(literary) black; dark; many
• 犁plow
• 篱a fence
• 狸(bound form) used in the names of small mammals
• 骊black horse; jet steed; good horse
• 罹happen to; sorrow; suffer from
• 漓pattering (of rain); seep through
• 藜name of weed plant (fat hen, goosefoot, pigweed etc); Chenopodium album