VocabularyHSK 3 · core

公里

gōnglǐ

kilometer

Part of speech · noun

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Examples

  1. 我家离公司十公里。
    10 km from home to work.
  2. 高速路限速一百二十公里。
    Highway limit 120 km/h.

Collocations

一公里十公里公里数

Mnemonic

公里 gōnglǐ "kilometer" — 公 (metric) + 里 (li, traditional ~500 m). 公里 = 1 km; bare 里 = ~500 m. Japanese/Korean borrow "kiro / killo" instead.

Quick check

  1. Bare 里 distance?

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