Li: A Chinese unit of distance, 里 (Lǐ), a li is equal to 500 metres, or about 1/3 mile. In ancient times, during the Chin and Han dynasties, a li was 360 paces, or about 576 metres (古代以三百六十步為一里). In measurement, Chinese units (市制 Pinyin: Shìzhì, city standard) are the units used in Imperial China, and are still used. ... personal space, proxemics. ... The metre, (symbol: m) is the SI base unit of length. ... A mile is any of several units of distance, or, in physics terminology, of length. ... The Qin Dynasty (秦朝 Pinyin Qín, Wade-Giles Chin; 221 BC - 207 BC) was preceded by the Zhou Dynasty and followed by the Han Dynasty in China. ... Han commanderies and kingdoms AD 2. ...

During the Wei and Western Chin dynasties, and in the Sanguo Zhi or Three Country Record, the li was approximately 77 meters. The Liang Shu describes that the statelet of Wa (in Kyushu, Japan) was 2,000 li (150 kilometers) across the sea from the Korean peninsula with an island in the middle (Tsushima Island). Northern Wei Buddha Maitreya, 443 AD. A Buddhist stela from the Northern Wei period, build in the early 6th century. ... The Western Qin (Simplified Chinese character: 西秦, Traditional Chinese character: 西秦, pinyin Xīqín (385-400, 409-431)) was a state of Xianbei ethnicity during the era of Sixteen Kingdoms in China. ... The Sānguó Zhì (Chinese 三国志, or 三國誌), variously translated as Chronicle of the Three Kingdoms, Records of the Three States and Records of the Three Kingdoms was the official and authoritative historical text compiled by Chen Shou during the Chinese Jin Dynasty (265-420) on the period of the Three... Kyushu region, Japan Kyushu (九州) is the third largest island of Japan and most southerly and westerly of the four main islands. ... The Tsushima Islands are situated wholly in the Korea Strait, East and South-east of the Korean Peninsula and between the Japanese mainland due west of the Kanmon Strait which divides Honshu from Kyushu, and which also connects Korea / Tsushima straits to the Inland Sea. ...

The value of the li has been inconstant over the years, ranging from just under 80 metres to just under 580; the accepted modern value is standardized at 500 metres (or approximately 547 yds.) This article is about the unit of measure known as the yard. ...

(Zh:從帶方至倭，循海水行，歷韓國，乍東乍南，七千餘里始度一海。海闊千餘里，名瀚海，至一支國。又度一海千餘里，名未盧國。)