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# li

«li» in Mova's school dictionary: **not a usual English word; it is most often a piece of a…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

fragment or name; noun (li, li — a Chinese unit, rare in English)

### meaning for a pupil

1) "Li" is not a usual English word; it is most often a piece of a longer word or a short form. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/li/#m1)

2) In Chinese, a li is an old unit of length, about half a kilometre. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/li/#m2)

3) Li is also a common Chinese family name, and "Li" is the chemical symbol for the metal lithium. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/li/#m3)

### sense in the lessons

Pupils meet "li" mostly as the symbol Li for lithium in science, as a family name in stories (Mr Li, Li Na), or as a broken piece of a word. In HTML (web pages) "li" marks one item of a list.

### examples

- Li is the chemical symbol for lithium. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/li/#x1)
- Mr Li runs the corner shop. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/li/#x2)
- My friend Li Wei sits next to me in maths. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/li/#x3)
- The old map measured the road in li, not miles. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/li/#x4)
- In a web page, each list item starts with li. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/li/#x5)
- The symbol Li has a capital L and a small i. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/li/#x6)

### note

Not a normal word to use in a sentence on its own; check whether it is a name (capital L), a symbol (Li, capital L) or a fragment of a longer word. Do not confuse with "lie" or "lee".

### In the corpora

- [A legend says Li Bai drowned reaching for the Moon's reflection, but he probably died of illness.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/54-china-the-silk-road-and-the-tang/15/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «li» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/li/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.