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The character 里 (lǐ) originated as an ideograph for an agricultural settlement, combining 田 (tián) for a cultivated field above 土 (tǔ) for earth or soil. This structure depicted a village or residential unit situated among farmland. As such settlements were spaced at regular intervals, the character evolved to denote a standard unit of distance. It was later adopted to replace the more complex traditional forms 裡 and 裏, which were phono-semantic compounds using the clothing radical 衤 (yī) to describe a garment’s inner lining, thereby acquiring the common modern sense of "inside" or "interior".
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我在家里吃饭。
书包里有一本书。
学校里有好多学生。
晚上八点我回到家里。
这里离北京五百公里。
他在房间里静静地看书。
我们计划在假期里旅行去上海。
在她的心里，总是充满了希望。