HSK 2 · Shopping & money
公里
gōng lǐ
kilometre
Stroke order of 公里
2 characters, 11 strokes in total. Watch the animation, then try writing it yourself.
公 · 4 strokes里 · 7 strokes
Memory trick
公 shares openly; 里 is a field 田 on earth 土: a public measure of land distance.
Parts: 公 public + 里 distance unit
The characters in 公里
- 里 lǐ — inside (7 strokes)
Example sentence
学校离这里三公里。
The school is three kilometres from here.