海里

海里

Chinese

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

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): hǎilǐ

  (Zhuyin): ㄏㄞˇ ㄌㄧˇ

• Cantonese

  (Guangzhou, Jyutping): hoi² lei⁵

  (Taishan, Wiktionary): hoi² lei⁴

• Min Nan (POJ): hái-lí

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• 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): /hɔːy̯³⁵ 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

1. nautical mile

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Japanese

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

Alternative forms

• 浬

Etymology

from 海哩 (かいり) (kairi), which is calque of English nautical mile.

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)

1. 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

1. 2006, 大辞林 (Daijirin), Third Edition (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN