里
Meanings
Noun
1. Japanese league; ri; old Japanese unit of distance, approx. 3.927 km or 2.44 miles
2. neighbourhood (under the ritsuryō system; orig. of 50 homes)
3. unit of area (approx. 654 m by 654 m)
Other spellings
り
Kanji used
Pitch accent
り
Used in vocabulary
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
小便一町糞一里
if you visit the toilet while traveling, you will fall behind your fellow travelers; one chō for a piss, one ri for a shit
Expression
海底二万里
Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea: A Tour of the Underwater World (1870 novel by Jules Verne)
Noun
Examples1
１００
There's many a slip between the cup and the lip.