里 — kanji meaning “ri”
里
ri, village, parent's home, league
- Meanings
- ri, village, parent's home, league
- On'yomi
- リ (ri)
- Kun'yomi
- さと
- Name readings
- さ
- Strokes
- 7
- School grade
- 2
- JLPT (old scale)
- Level 1
- Newspaper frequency
- #1096 of 2,500
- Classical radical
- 166
- Chinese reading
- lǐ — Chinese character page
Words with 里
| Word | Reading | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 千里 | せんり senri | 1000 ri; (a) long distance |
| 郷里 | きょうり kyouri | hometown; birthplace |
| 万里 | ばんり banri | great distance; thousands of miles; ten thousand ri |
| 里子 | さとご satogo | foster child |
| 里親 | さとおや satooya | foster parent; foster parents |
| 里帰り | さとがえり satogaeri | returning home to one's parents (orig. of a married person); visiting one's parents (for a prolonged period of stay) |
| 山里 | やまざと yamazato | mountain hamlet; mountain village |
| 人里 | ひとざと hitozato | village; human habitation; human settlement |
| 一里塚 | いちりづか ichirizuka | milestone (1 ri apart) |
| 里山 | さとやま satoyama | satoyama; rural landscape coexisting with local agricultural communities |
| 巴里 | パリ pari | Paris (France) |
| 海里 | かいり kairi | nautical mile |
Data: KANJIDIC2 (CC BY-SA 4.0); KanjiVG (CC BY-SA 3.0); JMdict (CC BY-SA 4.0). Retrieved 2026-10-22.