漢字Kanji · in Structures & Home
里: ri, village
Also: parent's home, league
Bronze · Western Zhou Small seal · Qin Today
Bronze: Wikimedia Commons, traced from Academia Sinica, CC0. Small seal: Academia Sinica 小學堂, CC0. Today’s form: KanjiVG, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Two readings, and the words that use each
リri · on'yomi · in compounds
- 郷里きょうりbirth-place, home town
- 海里かいりnautical mile, 1852m, 6080ft
- 一里塚いちりづかmilestone
さとsato · kun'yomi · on its own
- 里さとhome, village
- 里芋さといもtaro (type of tuber)
- 山里やまざとmountain hamlet
Words: Kanji alive, CC BY 4.0.
Where it comes from
Origin · sourced
Ideogrammic compound (會意)田 field + 土 soil; earth
A measure of land and fields; mile; place.
Source: Wiktionary, 里 (rev. 94591981), CC BY-SA 4.0
Memory story · made up to help you remember
“The base kanji representing a rural settlement or the traditional unit of distance (ri), capturing the essential link between land and community.”
Connections
里 gives its sound to
The family reading is リ (ri). Sound parts: KanjiVG.
Easy to confuse
The difference, side by sideIn ChineseSame character in simplified and traditional · lǐ
Same form: 里 is written the same way in mainland China (simplified) and in Taiwan and Hong Kong (traditional).
- Simplified
- 里 mainland China, Singapore
- Traditional
- 里 Taiwan, Hong Kong
Pinyin lǐ most common reading
False friend. In simplified Chinese, 里 also stands for 裏 (back, amidst), which Japanese writes as a separate kanji.
Forms and pinyin: Unicode Unihan database (Unicode License v3). Pinyin lists the most common reading, not every reading.