Radical 166

里
165 ⾤ ◄	166	► ⾦ 167
Pinyin :	lǐ
Zhuyin :	ㄌ ㄧ ˇ
Hiragana :	さ と sato
Kanji :	里 偏 satohen (= radical mile)
Hangul :	마을
Sinocorean :	리 ri ( l i)
Codepoint :	U + 91CC
Stroke sequence :

Radical 166 , which means “ mile , village ”, is one of twenty traditional radicals in Chinese writing , which consist of seven strokes.

With 5 character combinations in Mathews' Chinese-English Dictionary , it has a very low frequency.

The symbol for village is also used as a measure of length and corresponds to half a kilometer. Since the font reform of 1958, the sign has also meant “inside”.

In the compound symbol, 里 occurs primarily as a sound carrier, as in 厘 (= strict), 狸 (= marten), 理 (= reason), 娌 (= 妯娌 sister-in-law), 俚 (= vulgar). The lower part of 童 (= child) is not a 里, but the rest of 重, which acts here as a sound carrier. 量 (= measure) originally consisted of 重 and a combination of 日 (= sun) and 乡 (= land), which served as a sound carrier.

Character combinations ruled by radical 166

Strokes	character
+ 00	里
+ 02	重
+ 04	野
+ 05	量
+11	釐

In the Unicode block Kangxi radicals the radical 166 is coded under the code point number 12.197 (U + 2FA5).

literature

• Edoardo Fazzioli : Painted Words. 214 Chinese characters - from picture to concept . Marixverlag, Wiesbaden 2004, ISBN 3-937715-34-7 , p. 112 .

For detailed references, see List of Traditional Radicals: Literature

Web links

Commons : Radikal 166  - Graphic representations of Radikal 166

• Xiù cai.oai.de (PDF; 1.72 MB) Explanation of Radikal 166 on page 132