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Li or ri (Chinese: 里, lǐ, or 市里, shìlǐ), also known as the Chinese mile, [citation needed] is a traditional Chinese unit of distance. The li has varied considerably over time but was usually about one third of an English mile and now has a standardized length of a half- kilometer (500 meters or 1,640 feet or 0.311 miles ).
On 24 August 1992, Macau published Law No. 14/92/M to order that Chinese units of measurement similar to those used in Hong Kong, Imperial units, and United States customary units would be permissible for five years since the effective date of the Law, 1 January 1993, on the condition of indicating the corresponding SI values, then for three ...
[Note: the measurement of the Chinese-mile unit, the li, was changed over time, as the li in Song times differed from the length of a li in Han times.] The vehicle wheel (li lun) is attached to the left road-wheel; it has a diameter of 1.38 ft with a circumference of 4.14 ft, and has 18 cogs (chhih) 2.3 inches apart.
In writing, derived characters are often used, with an additional 口 radical to the left of the original Chinese character, for writing Imperial units. The most commonly used units are the mile or li (Chinese: 哩), the yard or ma (Chinese: 碼), the foot or chek (Chinese: 呎), and the inch or tsun (Chinese: 吋).
(Bloomberg Opinion) -- The building of China’s high-speed rail network counts as one of the greatest transportation success stories so far this century. That doesn’t mean the country can ...
Lunar distance LD ≈ 384 402 km. [10] Average distance between the center of Earth and the center of the Moon. astronomical unit au. Defined as 149 597 870 700 m. [11] Approximately the distance between the Earth and Sun. light-year ly ≈ 9 460 730 472 580.8 km. The distance that light travels in a vacuum in one Julian year. [12]
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The street connects Changmen (Chinese: 阊门) in the east with Huqiu in the west, with a total length of about 3,829.6 meters (2.38 miles), [1] or a little more than seven li or traditional "Chinese miles". [2] Due to the great history and events involving Shantang Street it is sometimes stated as being the "First Street in Shuzou". [3]