里 – Kanji details

Keyword

home village

Info

Frequency	Top 800-900
Type	Kyōiku (2nd grade) ?
Kanken	Level 9
Heisig	185
Readings	さと (48%) り (37%) ざと (13%)
	にざ

Composed of

甲

outer shell

二

two

Mnemonic

My home village is famous for its turtle outer shell soup, we eat two every day!

Used in kanji (19 in total)

logic

heavy

black

field

backside

shut up

quantity

to fill up (a hole)

summarize

preteen

racoon dog

back (old)

carp

one-hundredth

mile

nautical mile

rustic

tenth of a bu

a fox-like animal

Used in vocabulary (156 in total)

里さと

village; hamlet; countryside; country; home (of one's parents, etc.); hometown

里り

Japanese league; ri; neighbourhood (under the ritsuryō system; orig. of 50 homes); unit of area (approx. 654 m by 654 m)

人ひと里ざと

village; human habitation; human settlement

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Examples (9 in total)

彼かれは郷きょう里りの両りょう親しんによく電でん話わしますか。

Does he often call his parents at home?

私わたしの郷きょう里りの町まちは海うみに接せっしている。

My home town is adjacent to the ocean.

ここには人ひと里ざと離はなれた荒こう野やのほかに何なにもありません。

There is nothing here but remote wilderness.

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