Amazing Chinese Characters (598) Inside - 里

The bronze script of character Inside is

The top is character Field - 田 (Post 3), the bottom is character Soil - 土 (Post 223). The original meaning of the character is village. 

The big seal script of character Inside is

Similar to bronze script.

The small seal script of character Inside is

Similar to older scripts.

The clerical script of character Inside is

The bottom 

is character Cloth (Post 140). Character Inside is in between the top dot-horizontal-line, which may be a hat. 

However, there is another clerical script of character Inside

Similar as older scripts.

The character got another meaning at least two thousands years ago, which is Chinese Mile (500 meters right now).

Traditional Chinese have both character 裏 and character 里, but each has its own meaning. 裏 means Inside, 里 means Chinese Mile, or Village. Simplified Chinese keeps 里, abandoned 裏, let 里 have Inside (裏）and Chinese Mile (里). 

The Pinyin of the character is Li3.