海里

Chinese

		ocean; sea	li, a Chinese unit of length
simp. and trad. (海里)		海	里
anagram		里海

Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Pinyin): hǎilǐ

(Zhuyin): ㄏㄞˇ ㄌㄧˇ
Cantonese
(Guangzhou, Jyutping): hoi² lei⁵

(Taishan, Wiktionary): hoi² lei⁴
Min Nan (POJ): hái-lí

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Pinyin: hǎilǐ [Phonetic: háilǐ]
  - Zhuyin: ㄏㄞˇ ㄌㄧˇ
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: haelii
  - IPA ^(key): /xaɪ̯²¹⁴⁻³⁵ li²¹⁴⁻²¹⁽⁴⁾/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
  - Jyutping: hoi² lei⁵
  - Yale: hói léih
  - Cantonese Pinyin: hoi² lei⁵
  - Guangdong Romanization: hoi² léi⁵
  - IPA ^(key): /hɔːi̯³⁵ lei̯¹³/
- (Taishanese, Taicheng)
  - Wiktionary: hoi² lei⁴
  - IPA ^(key): /hᵘɔi⁵⁵ lei²¹/
Min Nan
- (Hokkien)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: hái-lí
  - Tâi-lô: hái-lí
  - Phofsit Daibuun: haylie
  - IPA (Xiamen): /haɪ⁵³⁻⁴⁴ li⁵³/
  - IPA (Quanzhou): /haɪ⁵⁵⁴⁻²⁴ li⁵⁵⁴/
  - IPA (Zhangzhou): /haɪ⁵³⁻⁴⁴ li⁵³/
  - IPA (Taipei): /haɪ⁵³⁻⁴⁴ li⁵³/
  - IPA (Kaohsiung): /haɪ⁴¹⁻⁴⁴ li⁴¹/

Noun

海里

nautical mile

Japanese

Kanji in this term
海	里
かい Grade: 2	り Grade: 2
on’yomi

Alternative forms

浬

Etymology

From Middle Chinese 海里 (xoj^X li^X, literally “sea, ocean + unit of distance”). Compare modern Mandarin reading hǎilǐ.

Pronunciation

On’yomi: Goon
- (Tokyo) かいり [káꜜìrì] (Atamadaka – [1])^[1]
- IPA^(key): [ka̠iɾʲi]

Noun

海里 (hiragana かいり, katakana カイリ, rōmaji kairi)

a nautical mile: the length of roughly one minute of latitude, 1,852 meters

See also

ノット (notto): a knot, a unit of speed equivalent to one nautical mile per hour

References

↑ 2006, 大辞林 (Daijirin), Third Edition (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN

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