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粒

lì

HSK 5 Character

What 粒 means

1. grain; granule; pellet; particle
2. classifier for small round objects (peas, bullets, peanuts, pills, grains etc)
3. Taiwanclassifier for larger round objects (watermelon etc)

Example sentences

• 我只剩下一粒糖了。
  Wǒ zhǐ shèng xià yī lì táng le.
  I only have one candy left.
• 一粒米都不要浪费!
  Yī lì mǐ dōu bù yào làngfèi!
  Waste not a single grain of rice!
• 空气中的微粒可以引发癌症。
  Kōngqì zhōng de wēilì kěyǐ yǐnfā áizhèng.
  Tiny particles in the air can cause cancer.
• 我的儿子从盒子里拿了一粒糖。
  Wǒ de érzi cóng hézi lǐ ná le yī lì táng.
  My son took a candy from the box.
• 你衬衫的第二粒衣钮好像快要掉下来了。
  The second button of your shirt is coming off.
• 一粒小小的橡实可以长成一棵高大的橡树。
  From a small acorn grows a tall oak tree.

Words starting with 粒

• 粒子lì zigrain (of rice); granule
• 粒径lì jìnggrain size
• 粒子束lì zǐ shùbeam of elementary particles
• 粒子流lì zǐ liústream of particles; particle flow
• 粒细胞lì xì bāogranulocyte
• 粒子物理lì zǐ wù lǐparticle physics
• 粒白细胞lì bái xì bāowhite granulocyte (blood cell)
• 粒子加速器lì zǐ jiā sù qìparticle accelerator
• 粒子物理学lì zǐ wù lǐ xuéparticle physics

Words containing 粒

• 颗粒kē lìkernel; granule; granulated (sugar, chemical product)
• 米粒mǐ lìgrain of rice; granule
• 沙粒shā lìgrain of sand
• 子粒zǐ lìseed
• 微粒wēi lìspeck; particle
• 果粒guǒ lìfruit pieces; fruit chunks
• 汗粒hàn lìbead of sweat
• 谷粒gǔ lìgrain (of cereal)
• 端粒duān lìtelomere, a protective DNA cap on a chromosome
• 细粒xì lìfine grain; fine-grained
• 脱粒tuō lìto thresh
• 胶粒jiāo lìcolloid; colloidal particles
• 质粒zhì lìplasmid
• 饭粒fàn lìgrain of cooked rice
• 麦粒mài lìgrain of wheat
• 中心粒zhōng xīn lì(cell biology) centriole
• 反粒子fǎn lì zǐantiparticle (physics)
• 多粒子duō lì zǐmany-particle (physics)
• 微粒体wēi lì tǐmicrosome
• 线粒体xiàn lì tǐmitochondrion
• 美粒果Měi lì guǒMinute Maid (brand)
• 脱粒机tuō lì jīthreshing machine
• 虚粒子xū lì zǐvirtual particle
• 基本粒子jī běn lì zǐelementary particle (particle physics)

Characters built on 立

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

• 泣qìto sob
• 翌yìbright; tomorrow
• 笠lìbamboo rain hat
• 翊yìassist; ready to fly; respect

Characters that look like 粒

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

• 粉fěnpowder; cosmetic face powder; food prepared from starch…
• 敞chǎngopen to the view of all; spacious; to open wide
• 粗cū(of sth long) wide; thick; (of sth granular) coarse; (of a voice) gruff
• 粘zhānto glue; to paste; to adhere; to stick to
• 敖Áosurname Ao
• 耘yúnto weed

Sounds the same

Read lì, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 力power; force; strength
• 历calendar
• 利sharp; favorable; advantage
• 例example; precedent; rule
• 励to encourage; to urge
• 丽beautiful
• 厉strict; severe
• 立to stand; to set up; to establish
• 隶(bound form) a person in servitude; low-ranking subordinate…
• 俐used in 伶俐
• 莉used in 茉莉; used in the transliteration of female names
• 吏minor government official or functionary (old)