The kanji 里: meaning, readings and stroke order
里
- Meaning
- village, countryside
- On reading
- リ ri
- Kun reading
- さと sato
- Strokes
- 7
- Radical
- 里 village, mile
- Level
- Level 2 · grade 2
Stroke order
Meaning in other languages
- Vietnamese
- làng quê (lý)
- Japanese
- さと。いなか。
- Korean
- 마을, 시골 (리·이)
- Chinese
- 村庄、乡下
Readings, words and example sentences
リ ri · on reading · less common
一里
one ri (old unit, about 4 km)
むかしの 人は 一里を あるきました。
Long ago, people walked one ri, about 4 kilometers.
さと sato · kun reading
里
village, countryside
山の 里に おじいさんが すんで います。
An old man lives in a village in the mountains.
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Readings, radicals: Kanjium, KANJIDIC2 (CC BY-SA 4.0); strokes: KanjiVG (CC BY-SA 3.0); Korean, simplified forms: Unicode Unihan. Meanings, sentences: Dino Kids (CC0). See Licences.