Kanji1 / 7
里 kanji
ri, village, parent's home, league
- JLPT level
- Not on the lists
- First appears in
- N1 vocabulary
- Strokes
- 7
- School grade
- Grade 2 (elementary school)
On readings
リ
Kun readings
さと
Words with 里
LevelWord & meaningActions
- —条里制jōri system of land subdivision in ancient Japan
- —遊里語language used in red-light districts during the Edo period
- —郷里制township-neighbourhood system; system in use between 715-740 CE which redefined the province-district-neighbourhood system, establishing 50-home townships of 2-3 neighbourhoods each
- —千里鏡telescope
- —一望千里sweeping view of the eye; boundless expanse
- —一瀉千里one swift effort; rush through one's work; fast-talking, writing, etc.
- —五里霧中totally at a loss; lose one's bearings; in a maze; in a fog; all at sea; up in the air; mystified; bewildered
- —悪事千里bad news traveling fast; ill news spreading like wildfire
- —雲煙万里limitless expanse of clouds and smoke
- —雲泥万里being poles apart; (there being) all the difference in the world
- —山川万里being far away across mountains and rivers
- —波濤万里faraway lands; voyage to faraway lands
- —沃野千里vast expanse of fertile land
- —舳艫千里a large number of ships sailing in a long chain-like formation
- —前程万里a bright (rosy) future awaiting one; having the world before one
- —千里同風a country being in a state of universal peace; the world being peaceful and uneventful
- —天涯万里very far away; the heavenly shores
- —平沙万里vast stretch of desert; vast expanse of sandy plain
- —鵬程万里(over) a great distance; (a long journey (flight, voyage)) to (from) a faraway place
- —国郡里制province-district-neighbourhood administrative divisions (ritsuryō system)