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哩 is a phono-semantic compound combining 口 (mouth) on the left, which points to its association with vocal sound or speech, and 里 on the right, which supplies the pronunciation. The character functions primarily as a phonetic loan for transcribing foreign words, most famously the English "mile", and as a sentence-final particle that lends a colloquial tone, marks an ongoing action, or adds slight emphasis.
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你在干什么哩？
天气真好哩！
他还在睡觉哩。
这本书很有趣哩。
你吃饭了没有哩？
那个地方很远哩。
他为什么不来哩？
虽然下雨了，但我们还是要去哩。
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