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
- —虎は千里往って千里還るa parent will do anything for their child; a tiger will walk a thousand leagues and a thousand leagues back (for its cub)
- —百里を行く者は九十を半ばとすdon't count your chickens before they're hatched; there's many a slip 'twixt the cup and the lip; consider a journey of 100 ri to be halfway completed at 90
- —里言dialect; language of the common people; colloquial language; slang
- —里諺proverb; saying
- —里語dialect; language of the common people; colloquial language; slang
- —里謡ballad; folk song; popular song
- —計里gray-headed lapwing (Microsarcops cinereus); grey-headed lapwing
- —田計里northern lapwing (Vanellus vanellus); green plover; pewit; peewit
- —亜爾加里alkali
- —五里夢中totally at a loss; lose one's bearings; in a maze; in a fog; all at sea; up in the air; mystified; bewildered
- —加里石鹸potash soap
- —木立百里香thyme
- —伊万里焼きImari ware; Imari porcelain
- —虎は千里行って千里帰るa parent will do anything for their child; a tiger will walk a thousand leagues and a thousand leagues back (for its cub)
- —百里を行くものは九十を半ばとすdon't count your chickens before they're hatched; there's many a slip 'twixt the cup and the lip; consider a journey of 100 ri to be halfway completed at 90