Etymology

ri

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Today it means: rex imperator (“king-emperor”) or regina imperatrix (“queen-empress”); the initials by which a British monarch signed documents after his or her name from 1877 until 1947. Full definition →

Korean 리 ← Chinese 里
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  1. Chinese · derived from里
  2. Korean · derived from리
  3. English todayri

From the McCune-Reischauer romanization of Korean 리 (ri), from Chinese 里 (lǐ). Doublet of li.

Words from the same roots

Korean리 all →

li

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