毫釐

Chinese

		hair; drawing brush; (in the) least hair; drawing brush; (in the) least; one thousandth	centi-
trad. (毫釐/毫厘)		毫	釐/厘
simp. (毫厘)		毫	厘
alternative forms		豪釐豪氂／豪牦

Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Pinyin): háolí

(Zhuyin): ㄏㄠˊ ㄌㄧˊ
Cantonese (Jyutping): hou⁴ lei⁴
Hakka
(Sixian, PFS): hò-lì

(Hailu, HRS): ho li
Puxian Min (Pouseng Ping'ing): hor² li²
Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): hô-lî

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: háolí
  - Zhuyin: ㄏㄠˊ ㄌㄧˊ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: háolí
  - Wade–Giles: hao²-li²
  - Yale: háu-lí
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: haurli
  - Palladius: хаоли (xaoli)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /xɑʊ̯³⁵ li³⁵/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
  - Jyutping: hou⁴ lei⁴
  - Yale: hòuh lèih
  - Cantonese Pinyin: hou⁴ lei⁴
  - Guangdong Romanization: hou⁴ léi⁴
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /hou̯²¹ lei̯²¹/
Hakka
- (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Neipu)
  - Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: hò-lì
  - Hakka Romanization System: ho^ˇ li^ˇ
  - Hagfa Pinyim: ho² li²
  - Sinological IPA: /ho¹¹ li¹¹/
- (Hailu, incl. Zhudong)
  - Hakka Romanization System: ho li
  - Sinological IPA: /ho⁵⁵ li⁵⁵/
Puxian Min
- (Putian)
  - Pouseng Ping'ing: hor² li² [Phonetic: hor⁵ li²]
  - Báⁿ-uā-ci̍: hó̤-lí
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /hɒ¹³⁻¹¹ li¹³/
- (Xianyou)
  - Pouseng Ping'ing: hor² li² [Phonetic: hor⁵ li²]
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /hɒ²⁴⁻²¹ li²⁴/
Southern Min
- (Hokkien: General Taiwanese)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: hô-lî
  - Tâi-lô: hô-lî
  - Phofsit Daibuun: hoilii
  - IPA (Kaohsiung): /hɤ²³⁻³³ li²³/
  - IPA (Taipei): /ho²⁴⁻¹¹ li²⁴/

Middle Chinese: haw li

Rime
Character	毫	釐
Reading #	1/1	1/1
Initial (聲)	匣 (33)	來 (37)
Final (韻)	豪 (89)	之 (19)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)	Level (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open	Open
Division (等)	I	III
Fanqie	胡刀切	里之切
Baxter	haw	li
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/ɦɑu/	/lɨ/
Pan Wuyun	/ɦɑu/	/lɨ/
Shao Rongfen	/ɣɑu/	/lie/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/ɦaw/	/lɨ/
Li Rong	/ɣɑu/	/liə/
Wang Li	/ɣɑu/	/lĭə/
Bernhard Karlgren	/ɣɑu/	/li/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	háo	lí
Expected Cantonese Reflex	hou⁴	lei⁴

Old Chinese
(Baxter–Sagart): /*[ɡ]ˤaw [r]ə/

(Zhengzhang): /*ɡaːw rɯ/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	毫	釐
Reading #	1/1	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	háo	lí
Middle Chinese	‹ haw ›	‹ li ›
Old Chinese	/*[ɡ]ˁaw/	/*[r]ə/
English	fine animal hair	regulate, govern
Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter–Sagart system: * Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence; * Square brackets "[]" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. [t] as coda may in fact be -t or -p; Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix; * Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary; * Period "." indicates syllable boundary.

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	毫	釐
Reading #	1/1	1/1
No.	3748	7802
Phonetic component	高	釐
Rime group	宵	之
Rime subdivision	1	0
Corresponding MC rime	豪	釐
Old Chinese	/*ɡaːw/	/*rɯ/
Notes		金文象攴擊來麥脫粒，治來來亦聲，而非未聲，來訛未乃轉註加里聲

Noun

毫釐

a very small amount

Derived terms

不差毫釐
失之毫釐，差之千里
失之毫釐，差以千里
失之毫釐，謬以千里
差之毫釐，謬之千里
差之毫釐，謬以千里 (chāzhīháolí, miùyǐqiānlǐ)
差以毫釐，失之千里 (chāyǐháolí, shīzhīqiānlǐ)
毫釐不爽
毫釐之差
毫釐千里
毫釐卜可
毫釐可

References

“毫釐”, in 重編國語辭典修訂本 [Revised Mandarin Chinese Dictionary] (in Chinese), National Academy for Educational Research (Taiwan), 2021.
小川尚義 (OGAWA Naoyoshi), editor (1931–1932), “毫釐”, in 臺日大辭典 [Taiwanese-Japanese Dictionary]‎^[1] (overall work in Hokkien and Japanese), Taihoku: Government-General of Taiwan, →OCLC
莆田市政协文化文史和学习委员会 [Culture, History and Learning Committee of Putian CPPCC], editor (2021), “毫釐”, in 莆仙方言大词典 [Comprehensive Dictionary of Puxian Dialect] (overall work in Mandarin and Puxian Min), Xiamen University Press, →ISBN, page 271.