| 里 |
| 1. n. a village | |
| 2. n. a country house | |
| 3. n. one's hometown | |
| 4. n. the country, countryside | |
| 5. n. the original home of a household member (q, such as a wife, adoptee, or other person who has joined the household from outside) | |
| 6. n. a separate home or boarding situation to which one's own children are sent for upbringing or education | |
| 7. n. a red-light district | |
| 8. n. one's birth, parentage, origins | |
| 9. n. (slang red-light district) boorishness, hickishness | |
| 10. n. the lay world (q, as opposed to life within a temple) | |
| 11. n. (uncommon historical, obsolete) (Same as , り, tr=ri below) | |
| 12. adj. (slang red-light district) boorish, hickish | |
| 13. n. a unit of distance: | |
| 14. n. under the 律令 system, defined as equal to 300 歩 or 1500 尺 | |
| 15. n. from the early modern until the end of the (Edo period), defined as equal to 36 町, approximately between 3.6 to 4.2 kilometers | |
| 16. n. from the mid-(Meiji period), defined as equal to frac, 129,600, 33 meters, approximately 3.927 kilometers or 2.44 miles | |
| 17. n. (historical) under the 律令 system, a unit of area for regional administration, equal to 50 戸 | |
| 18. affix. village | |
