| 里 | lǐ | li (Chinese mile); 500 meters (modern); home; hometown; village; neighborhood; administrative unit; Li (surname); lining; interior; inside; internal |
| 里面 | lǐ miàn | inside; interior |
| 里边 | lǐ bian | inside |
| 里头 | lǐ tou | inside; interior |
| 里人 | lǐ rén | person from the same village, town or province; peasant (derog.); (of a school of thought etc) follower |
| 里加 | Lǐ jiā | Riga, capital of Latvia |
| 里海 | Lǐ Hǎi | Caspian Sea |
| 里带 | lǐ dài | inner tube (of tire) |
| 里程 | lǐ chéng | long journey; mileage (distance); course of development |
| 里昂 | Lǐ áng | Lyon, French city on the Rhône |
| 里约热内卢 | Lǐ yuē rè nèi lú | Rio de Janeiro |
| 里程碑 | lǐ chéng bēi | milestone |
| 里里外外 | lǐ lǐ wài wài | inside and out |
| 里外里 | lǐ wài lǐ | all in all; either way |
| 里出外进 | lǐ chū wài jìn | uneven; in disorder; everything sticking out |
| 里勾外连 | lǐ gōu wài lián | to act from inside in coordination with attackers outside; attacked from both inside and out |
| 里外 | lǐ wài | inside and out; or so |
| 里进外出 | lǐ jìn wài chū | too many people coming and going (idiom) |
| 里边儿 | lǐ bianr | erhua variant of 里边 |
| 里克特 | Lǐ kè tè | Richter (name); Charles Francis Richter (1900-1985), US physicist and seismologist, after whom the Richter scale is named |
| 里士满 | Lǐ shì mǎn | Richmond (name) |
| 里奇蒙 | Lǐ qí méng | Richmond (place name or surname) |
| 里奥斯 | Lǐ ào sī | Ríos |
| 里奥格兰德 | lǐ ào gé lán dé | Rio Grande (Brasil) |
| 里希特霍芬 | Lǐ xī tè huò fēn | Ferdinand von Richthofen (1833-1905), German geologist and explorer who published a major foundational study of the geology of China in 1887 and first introduced the term Silk Road 丝绸之路 |
| 里弄 | lǐ lòng | lanes and alleys; neighborhood; lane neighborhoods in parts of Shanghai, with modified Chinese courtyard houses, occupied by single families in the 1930s, now crowded with multiple families |
| 里弗赛德 | Lǐ fú sài dé | Riverside |
| 里斯本 | Lǐ sī běn | Lisbon, capital of Portugal |
| 里根 | Lǐ gēn | Reagan (name); Ronald Reagan (1911-2004), US president (1981-1989) |
| 里氏 | Lǐ shì | Richter (scale) |
| 里氏震级 | Lǐ shì zhèn jí | Richter magnitude scale |
| 里港 | Lǐ gǎng | Likang township in Pingtung county 屏东县, Taiwan |
| 里港乡 | Lǐ gǎng xiāng | Likang township in Pingtung county 屏东县, Taiwan |
| 里尔 | Lǐ ěr | Lille (city in France) |
| 里瓦几亚条约 | Lǐ wǎ jī yà tiáo yuē | draft unequal treaty of Livadia (Crimea) of 1879 between Russia and Qing China, subsequently renegotiated |
| 里瓦尔多 | Lǐ wǎ ěr duō | Rivaldo |
| 里程表 | lǐ chéng biǎo | odometer |
| 里程计 | lǐ chéng jì | speedometer (of a vehicle) |
| 里约 | lǐ yuē | agreement between the residents of a 里, an administrative district under a city or town (Taiwan) |
| 里肌肉 | lǐ jī ròu | loin (of pork) |
| 里贾纳 | Lǐ jiǎ nà | Regina city, capital of Saskatchewan province, Canada |
