哩 (li) — sentence-final tone marker; (in 英哩) a mile

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TSUMUGU · TOCFL B2 (est.) · 字

哩 character · TOCFL B2 (est.)

哩＝口＋里

˙ㄌㄧ · li

particle — sentence-final tone marker; (in 英哩) a mile

字源 FORM — what the parts do

口義the mouth — a spoken sound

里聲lǐ — gives the sounda field (田) over earth (土) — a village, a 里 of distance

Tlǐ → li — the third tone drops to neutral

A mouth-sound (口) borrowing 里 for its noise — a tone that hangs at the end of a sentence. 里 lǐ carries the sound, the tone slackening to neutral. Lent to measure too, it writes the mile: 英哩.

意 · Meanings

(本義)哩（語氣助詞）— sentence-final particle常用

→英哩— a mile (sound-loan)常用

→哩哩啦啦— scattered chatter

(本義) original meaning · → ⇒ each arrow = one more step of extension