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Chinese_mile

Chinese mile

English

Noun

Chinese mile ‎(plural Chinese miles)

  1. A li, a traditional Chinese unit of distance equal to 1500 Chinese feet or 150 zhangs, now standardized as a half-kilometer (500 meters).

Etymology

By analogy with the similar Roman and English unit, although the li was somewhat shorter.

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