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The character 里 (lǐ) originally combined 田 (tián, 'field') and 土 (tǔ, 'earth'), representing a village or settlement within farmland. Since villages were often spaced at regular intervals, 里 also came to denote a unit of distance (about half a kilometre). In modern simplified Chinese, 里 additionally means 'inside', having been adopted as a simpler substitute for the traditional characters 裡 and 裏; these were phono-semantic compounds with the clothing radical 衤 (yī) that originally referred to the inner lining of garments.
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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。
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