Keyword
home village
- ri
- village
- parent's home
- league
- Frequency
- #1096
- Strokes
- 7
- Grade
- 2
- JLPT (old)
- N1
- Heisig
- 185
Readings
リ56%
さと44%
Mnemonic
In my home village, the famous dish is soup in a turtle's outer shell, and everyone gets two bowls.
Stroke order
Composed of
Used in kanji
理logic野field重heavy量quantity黒black裏backside埋to fill up (a hole)童preteen黙shut up厘one-hundredth鯉carp狸racoon dog俚rustic哩mile娌brother's wife悝to laugh at浬nautical mile梩hod裡back (old)貍a fox-like animal廛fine residence鋰Lithium (element)瀍river in Henan province釐tenth of a bu纏summarize躔movement of the sun or the moon through the heavens
Used in vocabulary
里
Japanese league; ri; old Japanese unit of distance, approx. 3.927 km or 2.44 miles; neighbourhood (under the ritsuryō system; orig. of 50 homes); unit of area (approx. 654 m by 654 m)
Noun
里帰り
returning home to one's parents (orig. of a married person); visiting one's parents (for a prolonged period of stay); bride's first visit to her parents after getting married; coming back (of an item; after having been on loan, etc. abroad)
Noun
里
village; hamlet; countryside; country; home (of one's parents, etc.); hometown; one's origins; one's upbringing; one's past
Noun
隠れ里
hidden village (esp. hidden retreat for nobles or refuge for soldiers of a defeated army); isolated village; legendary land (deep in mountains or underground); Shangri-La
Noun
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
No-adjective