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The character 哩 has a simple phono-semantic structure. The mouth radical 口 on the left indicates it relates to speech or sound. The right side is the phonetic component 里, which provides the pronunciation and also means a village or a unit of distance. As a phonetic loan, it is mainly used to transcribe foreign words, most notably for the English unit "mile". It also frequently functions as a sentence-final particle in spoken Chinese, adding a colloquial tone to indicate ongoing action or 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。