JLPT N5 kanji. Readings, meaning, and how the character is built.
里 means village, hometown, ri (old unit of distance, about 3.9 km). It is a JLPT N5 kanji written in 7 strokes, read さと or り. It appears in 郷里 (birth-place / home town).
里 is written in 7 strokes, in the order numbered below. Order matters: it is what makes handwriting legible, and it is how the character is looked up in a paper dictionary.
| Word | Reading | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 郷里 | きょうり | birth-place / home town |
里 tends to carry the sound り. They carry it; they do not all mean the same thing.
| Reading | Meaning | |
|---|---|---|
| 里 | り | ri, village |
| 理 | り | logic, arrangement |
| 鯉 | り | carp |
| 狸 | り | tanuki, raccoon |
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