Kanji
里
N4
7 strokes
Grade 2
freq #1096
ri, village, parent's home, league
On'yomi (音読み)
リ
Kun'yomi (訓読み)
さと
On'yomi compounds (音読み)
里
り
Japanese league; ri
千里
せんり
1000 ri; (a) long distance
郷里
きょうり
hometown; birthplace
万里
ばんり
thousands of miles
山里
やまざと
mountain hamlet; mountain village
人里
ひとざと
village; human habitation
一里塚
いちりづか
milestone (1 ri apart)
Kun'yomi words (訓読み)
里子
さとご
foster child
里帰り
さとがえり
returning home to one's parents (orig. of a married person); visiting one's parents (for a prolonged period of stay)
里親
さとおや
foster parent; foster parents
Example sentences
100里(り)を行(い)く者(もの)は99里(り)を半(なか)ばとする。
There's many a slip between the cup and the lip.
千里(せんり)の道(みち)も一歩(いっぽ)から。
Rome was not built in a day.
彼(かれ)は郷里(きょうり)の両親(りょうしん)によく電話(でんわ)しますか。
Does he often call his parents at home?
僕(ぼく)の郷里(きょうり)の町(まち)は海(うみ)に接(つ)している。
My hometown is adjacent to the ocean.