城裡

Chinese

		city walls; city; town	inside; within; in inside; within; in; lining of clothing
trad. (城裡/城裏)		城	裡/裏
simp. (城里)		城	里

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): chénglǐ

  (Zhuyin): ㄔㄥˊ ㄌㄧˇ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): sing⁴ leoi⁵
• Puxian Min (Pouseng Ping'ing): sia² li³ / siaⁿ² li³
• Wu (Northern, Wugniu): ⁶zen-li₆ / ²zen-⁴li₃

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: chénglǐ
    • Zhuyin: ㄔㄥˊ ㄌㄧˇ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: chénglǐ
    • Wade–Giles: chʻêng²-li³
    • Yale: chéng-lǐ
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: chernglii
    • Palladius: чэнли (čɛnli)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ʈ͡ʂʰɤŋ³⁵ li²¹⁴⁻²¹⁽⁴⁾/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: sing⁴ leoi⁵
    • Yale: sìhng léuih
    • Cantonese Pinyin: sing⁴ loey⁵
    • Guangdong Romanization: xing⁴ lêu⁵
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /sɪŋ²¹ lɵy̯¹³/
• Puxian Min
  • (Putian)
    • Pouseng Ping'ing: sia² li³ [Phonetic: sia⁵ li³]
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ɬia¹³⁻²¹ li⁴⁵³/
  • (Putian)
    • Pouseng Ping'ing: sia² li³ [Phonetic: sia⁵ i³]
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ɬia¹³⁻²¹ ^(l-)i⁴⁵³/
  • (Xianyou)
    • Pouseng Ping'ing: siaⁿ² li³ [Phonetic: siaⁿ⁵ li³]
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ɬĩã¹³⁻²¹ li³³²/
• Wu
  • (Northern: Shanghai)
    • Wugniu: ⁶zen-li₆
    • MiniDict: zen^去 li^去
    • Wiktionary Romanisation (Shanghai): ³zen-li₃
    • Sinological IPA (Shanghai): /zən²² li⁴⁴/
  • (Northern: Jiaxing)
    • Wugniu: ²zen-⁴li₃
    • MiniDict: zen^平 'li^上
    • Sinological IPA (Jiaxing): /zən¹³ li³¹/

Noun

城裡

1. inside a city
2. city centre; downtown

   到城裡去淘金／到城里去淘金  ―  dào chénglǐ qù táojīn  ―  to go to the city to try to strike it rich

3. (archaic) inside the city walls

Synonyms

• (city centre):

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• 城區／城区 (chéngqū)
• 市區／市区 (shìqū)
• 鬧區／闹区 (nàoqū)

 

Derived terms

• 城裡人／城里人 (chénglǐrén)

 

References

• 莆田市政协文化文史和学习委员会 [Culture, History and Learning Committee of Putian CPPCC], editor (2021), “城里”, in 莆仙方言大词典 (overall work in Mandarin and Puxian Min), Xiamen University Press, →ISBN, page 483.