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In China, 1959 – present, a unit of length in the gong zhí simplified metric system, = 1 kilometer.¹
gong may be translated “official,” “common” or “public,” or in this context, “metric.”
Yīnglĭ (英里) is an English statute mile.
1. United Nations, 1966.
Click to view Tianwei Xei's animated gifs showing how the characters are drawn: gong li
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