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li meaning in Tamil

லி

/liː/

li in Tamil: லி. In English, li means the Chinese mile, a traditional unit of distance equal to 1500 chis or 150 zhangs, now standardized as a half-kilometer (500 meters).

Tamil words for li

லி

English meaning of li

  1. noun The Chinese mile, a traditional unit of distance equal to 1500 chis or 150 zhangs, now standardized as a half-kilometer (500 meters).
  2. noun The Korean mile, a traditional unit of distance equivalent to about 393 m.
  3. noun A traditional Chinese unit of weight, equal to one-thousandth of a liang, or fifty milligrams.
  4. noun A meaningful ceremony or ritual; etiquette, behaviour.

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Questions about li in Tamil

What is the meaning of li in Tamil?
Li in Tamil is லி.
li என்பதன் தமிழ் அர்த்தம் என்ன?
Li: லி.
What does li mean in English?
Li means the Chinese mile, a traditional unit of distance equal to 1500 chis or 150 zhangs, now standardized as a half-kilometer (500 meters).

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Tamil words: machine translation by IndicTrans2 (AI4Bharat, MIT license), kept only when it translates back to “li”. English meanings adapted from Wiktionary: li (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the Tamil words and English meanings and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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