Cantonese · Jyutping
Mandarin · Pinyin
- lí
English
- manage, control
- variant of 釐|厘[li2]
- thousandth part of tael
- (finance) percentage point
- centi-
粵語
- 財務上嘅百分點
- 用喺前面,表示百分之一
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Variants
Words containing 厘
- 無厘頭mou4 lei4 tau4
silly talk or "mo lei tau" (Cantonese), genre of humor emerging from Hong Kong late in the 20th century
- 厘米lei4 mai5
centimetre
- 梳乎厘so1 fu4 lei2
(HK) (loanword) soufflé
- 地厘dei6 lei1
pantry attendant
- 厘金lei4 gam1
a form of transit taxation in China introduced to finance armies to suppress the Taiping Rebellion
- 巴厘baa1 lei4
Bali (island province of Indonesia)
- 厘印lei4 jan3
Stamp duty
- 車厘子ce1 lei4 zi2
(loanword) sweet cherry
- 巴厘島baa1 lei4 dou2
Bali (island in Indonesia)
- 車厘茄ce1 lei4 ke2
cherry tomato; small tomato
- 市厘si5 lei4
li (Chinese unit of length equal to ⅓ millimeter)
- 厘士lei4 si6
Lace
- 班地厘baan1 dei6 lei1
pantry attendant
- 冇厘心機mou5 lai4 sam1 gei1
to feel unmotivated; to feel dispirited [colloquial]
- 射厘眼se6 lei1 ngaan5
exotropia, wall-eyedness, lazy-eyedness, divergent squint; also someone with the condition; sometimes refers to eye misalignment in general
- 立方厘米laap6 fong1 lei4 mai5
cubic centimetre
- 些厘酒se1 lei2 zau2
sherry, a kind of fortified wine originating from Spain
- 峇厘baa1 lei4
Bali (island province of Indonesia) (Singapore, Malaysia)
- 冇厘神氣mou5 lai4 san4 hei3
to refer somebody is lack of energy
- 冇厘搭霎mou5 lei4 daap3 saap3
to refer somebody is lack of a sense of responsibility
- 冇厘精神mou5 lei4 zing1 san4
absent-minded
- 冇厘正經mou5 lai4 zing3 ging1
used to criticise someone of joking about serious matters; literally: without a gram of seriousness
- 無厘剎那mou4 lei4 saat3 naa5
suddenly
- 平方厘米ping4 fong1 lei4 mai5