里
里 — ri
Meaning and reading as used in Korean (hanja).
- Korean reading
- 마을 리
- Romanization
- ri
- English
- unit of distance; village; lane; Kangxi radical 166
- Mandarin
- lǐ
- Japanese on'yomi
- リ
- Japanese kun'yomi
- さと
- Japanese usage
- Jōyō kanji
- School grade
- Grade 2
- Newspaper frequency
- #1,096 of 2,500
- Strokes
- 7
- Radical
- 里 (166, 0 residual)
- Unicode
- U+91CC
How 里 was formed
Traditional analysis treats 里 as a ideographic compound involving 田, 土.
Korean example words with 里
- 향리鄕里 Korean gloss: 시골의 마을
- 촌리村里 Korean gloss: 시골의 작은 마을
- 고리故里 Korean gloss: 자기가 태어나서 자란 곳
- 전리田里 Korean gloss: 자기가 태어나서 자란 곳
- 이회里會 Korean gloss: 동네의 일을 의논하는 모임
- 타리他里 Korean gloss: 자기가 사는 동리 이외의 동리
- 일리一里 Korean gloss: 한 마을의 전체. 또는 온 동네
- 방리方里 Korean gloss: 사방으로 일 리(里)가 되는 넓이
- 이수里數 Korean gloss: 거리를 ‘리’의 단위로 나타낸 수
- 방리坊里 Korean gloss: 주로 시골에서, 여러 집이 모여 사는 곳
- 이정里程 Korean gloss: 어떤 곳으로부터 다른 곳까지 이르는 거리의 이수(里數)
- 상리上里 Korean gloss: 위쪽에 있는 마을. 다른 마을의 위쪽이나 지대가 높은 곳을 이른다
Definitions from Woorimalsam, National Institute of Korean Language (CC BY-SA 2.0 KR)
Japanese words with 里
- 里り Japanese league; ri; old Japanese unit of distance, approx. 3.927 km or 2.44 miles
- 千里せんり 1000 ri; (a) long distance
- 郷里きょうり hometown; birthplace
- 万里ばんり thousands of miles
- 里子さとご foster child; adopted animal (e.g. pet)
- 里帰りさとがえり returning home to one's parents (orig. of a married person); visiting one's parents (for a prolonged period of stay); bride's first visit to her parents after getting married
- 里親さとおや foster parent; foster parents; (pet) caretaker
- 山里やまざと mountain hamlet; mountain village
- 人里ひとざと village; human habitation; human settlement
- 一里塚いちりづか milestone (1 ri apart)
- 巴里パリ Paris (France)
- 一里いちり 2.44 miles
Characters sharing the phonetic 里
Most Han characters pair a meaning part with a sound part. Characters sharing a sound part are usually read alike. Most of this group are read “리” in Korean.
Other hanja read “리”
Other hanja with radical 里
Some glosses are machine-generated. Sources and licences are listed together — sources and licences