里 — village, ri (unit of distance)

さと里 village

さと

U+91CC Unicode hex codepoint — a unique identifier for this character in the Unicode standard. Freq #1096 Frequency rank among the ~2,500 most common kanji in Japanese newspapers. Lower number = more common. Heisig #177 Index in James Heisig's "Remembering the Kanji" — a popular textbook that teaches kanji through mnemonics and stories. Radical #166

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Meanings

village
ri (unit of distance)

Readings

On'yomi: り ri
Kun'yomi: さと sato

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さと sato Kun'yomi Kun'yomi (訓読み) — the native Japanese reading of this kanji. Used when the kanji appears alone or with okurigana (trailing hiragana).

里(さと) sato village 里(さと) 子(ご) satogo foster child 里(さと) 帰(がえ) り satogaeri returning home to one's parents (orig. of a married person) 里(さと) 親(おや) satooya foster parent

り ri On'yomi On'yomi (音読み) — the Sino-Japanese reading, derived from Chinese pronunciation. Most commonly used in compound words (jukugo).

万(ばん) 里(り) banri great distance 千(せん) 里(り) senri 1000 ri 郷(きょう) 里(り) kyouri hometown

Words by frequency and grade

7 words

Each dot is a word containing 里: further left is more common, higher up needs a later school grade (the grade of its hardest kanji). Click a dot to open the word.

S = secondary school · 6 words have no frequency rank; they sit in the Unranked column.

Appears in idioms

五里霧中四字熟語

five ri, fog middle

Stroke order

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Components

Composed of

た田 rice field #102

つち土 earth #32

Used as component in (9)

り理 reason の野 field くろい黒 black じゅう重 heavy どう童 juvenile りょう量 quantity うら裏 back うめる埋 bury りん厘 rin (unit)

Compound ideograph (会意). 田 (rice field) above 土 (earth). A village — community on cultivated earth. Also a unit of distance (ri).

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Kangxi Radical The Kangxi radicals are a set of 214 character components standardized in the 1716 Kangxi Dictionary. Every kanji is classified under one radical, used for dictionary lookup and character organization.

#166 里 village