里头(lǐ tou): inside
inside
Character breakdown
2 characters · plays one at a time
Watch how each character of 里头 is written, one at a time. When a character is finished, the next one draws.
Example sentences
How 里头 is used in everyday Chinese — the speaker reads the whole sentence.
他们匆匆忙忙去看足球赛，屋里头东西都丢在那儿。
tā men cōng cōng máng máng qù kàn zú qiú sài wū lǐ tou dōng xī dōu diū zài nà ér
They hurried off to watch a football game, leaving their things all over the house.
光剩了个空信封，里头什么也没有。
guāng shèng le gè kōng xìn fēng lǐ tou shén me yě méi yǒu
There’s only an empty envelope with nothing in it.
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