厘 lí one thousandth
怎么记住“厘”: 厂 factory + 里 in = one thousandth. On the old factory wall the climber checks her rope, and the crack in the brick is so thin it measures just one thousandth of a metre.
部件结构
形声 · Meaning + sound
One part gives the meaning, the other gives the sound.
厘 = 厂 factory + 里 in
- 厂 factory sound
- 里 in meaning
- 日 sun
- 土 earth
On the old factory wall the climber checks her rope, and the crack in the brick is so thin it measures just one thousandth of a metre.
How it came to be
It is an older character for the same word, with its top part left out.
用法
- Bound character meaning "one thousandth"; in practice it survives almost only in 厘米 límǐ "centimeter".
- Rare and mostly technical/measurement contexts otherwise, not a character you'll see used freely.