哪里
nǎ lǐ 3–3 → 2–3
where?; somewhere; anywhere; wherever; nowhere (negative answer to question); humble expression denying compliment; also written 哪里
- Characters
- 2
- 哪 · 里
- Syllables
- 2
- nǎ lǐ
- Frequency
- Common
- corpus count 750
Part of speech: r
Character by character
- 哪nǎ9 strokesHSK 1which? where? how?
- 里lǐ7 strokesHSK 1 traditional 裏unit of distance; village; lane; Kangxi radical 166
Each character links to its stroke order page with a tracing and a writing exercise.
Example sentences
你是哪里人？
Nǐ shì nǎ lǐ rén
Where are you from?
你们哪里的？
Nǐ men nǎ lǐ de
Where are you guys from?
Example sentences from Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0 FR), contributed by their community.
Words with the same characters
These words share at least one character with 哪里. Reading them together is how the character starts to stick — the same characters in a different context.
- 里lǐHSK 1
lining; interior; inside; internal; also written 里
- 这里zhè lǐHSK 1
here
- 哪nǎHSK 1
how; which
- 里面lǐ miànHSK 3
inside; interior; also pr. [lǐ mian]
- 那里nà liHSK 1
there; that place
- 家里jiā lǐHSK 1
home
- 心里xīn liHSK 2
chest; heart; mind
- 手里shǒu lǐHSK 4
in hand; (a situation is) in sb's hands
- 公里gōng lǐHSK 2
kilometer
- 哪儿nǎ rHSK 1
where?; wherever; anywhere; somewhere; (used in rhetorical questions) how can ...?; how could ...?
- 哪些nǎ xiēHSK 1
which ones?; who?; what?
- 哪怕nǎ pàHSK 4
even; even if; even though; no matter how
- 眼里yǎnliHSK 4
In the eyes
- 城里chénglǐHSK 5
In the city
- 夜里yè liHSK 2
during the night; at night; nighttime
- 怀里huái lǐHSK 7
embrace; bosom
- 里头lǐ touHSK 2
inside; interior
- 里边lǐ bianHSK 1
inside
- 心里话xīn li huàHSK 7
(to express one's) true feelings; what is on one's mind; secret mind
- 里程碑lǐ chéng bēiHSK 7
milestone
- 暗地里àn dì liHSK 7
secretly; inwardly; on the sly
- 鹏程万里péng chéng wàn lǐHSK 7
the fabled roc flies ten thousand miles (idiom); one's future prospects are brilliant
- 哪知道nǎ zhī dàoHSK 7
who would have thought that ...?