字の旅3,000 years in three forms
Bronze · Western ZhouWestern Zhou · c. 1000 BCE史頌簋, 集成04229
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.
部首Radical · in Structures & Home
里
里 village, distance (3.93 km)
さと sato
7 strokesRadical of 4 kanjiPart of 10
Your ink in 里0% painted · 0 of 4 familiar
Origin · sourced
Ideogrammic compound會意
A measure of land and fields; mile; place.
Built from 田 “field” + 土 “soil; earth”
Source: Wiktionary, 里 (rev. 94591981), CC BY-SA 4.0
Memory story · made up to help you remember
“Home is where the fields are! Imagine a cluster of small houses surrounded by rich soil and green crops. This radical represents the heart of rural life and the organized measurement of the landscape. When you see it, think of a community, a hometown, or a long journey through the countryside.”
Where it sits in a kanji
Indicates a village, a hometown, specific measurements of distance, rural fields, or the concept of being settled and established.
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Every kanji with 里 as its radical
Most used first
Ink shades, lightest to darkest: 白 Not met, 淡 Met, 中 Learning, 濃 Familiar, 印 Mastered
All 4 kanji