海里

Chinese

		ocean; sea	li, a Chinese unit of length
simp. and trad. (海里)		海	里
alternative forms		海浬海哩
anagram		里海

Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Pinyin): hǎilǐ

(Zhuyin): ㄏㄞˇ ㄌㄧˇ
Cantonese
(Guangzhou–Hong Kong, Jyutping): hoi² lei⁵

(Taishan, Wiktionary): hoi² lei⁴
Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): hái-lí

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: hǎilǐ [Phonetic: háilǐ]
  - Zhuyin: ㄏㄞˇ ㄌㄧˇ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: hǎilǐ
  - Wade–Giles: hai³-li³
  - Yale: hǎi-lǐ
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: haelii
  - Palladius: хайли (xajli)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /xaɪ̯²¹⁴⁻³⁵ li²¹⁴⁻²¹⁽⁴⁾/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
  - Jyutping: hoi² lei⁵
  - Yale: hói léih
  - Cantonese Pinyin: hoi² lei⁵
  - Guangdong Romanization: hoi² léi⁵
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /hɔːi̯³⁵ lei̯¹³/
- (Taishanese, Taicheng)
  - Wiktionary: hoi² lei⁴
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /hᵘɔi⁵⁵ lei²¹/
Southern Min
- (Hokkien)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: hái-lí
  - Tâi-lô: hái-lí
  - Phofsit Daibuun: haylie
  - IPA (Xiamen): /hai⁵³⁻⁴⁴ li⁵³/
  - IPA (Quanzhou): /hai⁵⁵⁴⁻²⁴ li⁵⁵⁴/
  - IPA (Zhangzhou): /hai⁵³⁻⁴⁴ li⁵³/
  - IPA (Taipei): /hai⁵³⁻⁴⁴ li⁵³/
  - IPA (Kaohsiung): /hai⁴¹⁻⁴⁴ li⁴¹/

Noun

海里

nautical mile
- 1958, State Council of the People's Republic of China, “Declaration of the Government of the People's Republic of China on the Territorial Sea”, in Gazette of the State Council of the People's Republic of China‎^[1], page 639:
  
  中華人民共和國的領海寬度為十二海里（浬）。 [MSC, trad.]
  中华人民共和国的领海宽度为十二海里（浬）。 [MSC, simp.]
  Zhōnghuárénmíngònghéguó de lǐnghǎi kuāndù wèi shí'èr hǎilǐ (lǐ). [Pinyin]
  The width of the territorial sea of the People's Republic of China is twelve nautical miles.

Synonyms

浬 (lǐ)

Japanese

Kanji in this term
海	里
かい Grade: 2	り Grade: 2
on'yomi

Alternative spellings
(kyūjitai) 海哩浬

Etymology

Calque of English nautical mile, formed as a compound of 海(かい) (kai, “sea, ocean”) + 里(り) (ri, “league, unit of distance”). First appears in 1872.^[1]

Also encountered in some historical texts^[2] with the kanji spelling 海哩, using the alternative 哩 (ri, “mile”) character.

Pronunciation

(Tokyo) かいり [káꜜìrì] (Atamadaka – [1])^[3]
IPA^(key): [ka̠iɾʲi]

Noun

海(かい)里(り) or 海里(カイリ) • (kairi)

a nautical mile: the length of roughly one minute of latitude, 1,852 meters

See also

ノット (notto): a knot, a unit of speed equivalent to one nautical mile per hour

References

^ Shōgaku Tosho (1988) 国語大辞典（新装版） [Unabridged Dictionary of Japanese (Revised Edition)] (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Shogakukan, →ISBN
^ Shōgaku Tosho (1988) 国語大辞典（新装版） [Unabridged Dictionary of Japanese (Revised Edition)] (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Shogakukan, →ISBN entry for 航程 (kōtei, “travel by ship”) here, containing a sample sentence from 1901 using this 海哩 spelling
^ Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 [Daijirin] (in Japanese), Third edition, Tokyo: Sanseidō, →ISBN

Korean

Hanja in this term
海	里

Noun

海里 • (haeri) (hangeul 해리)

hanja form^? of 해리 (“nautical mile”)

Vietnamese

chữ Hán Nôm in this term
海	里

Noun

海里

chữ Hán form of hải lý (“nautical mile”)