里

Derived characters

 * Appendix:Chinese radical/里

Glyph origin
– a measure of land and fields; mile; place.

Etymology 1
From (STEDT). Cognate with "hill, mound" &  "road crossing, street"; outsides Sinitic, cognate with 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬;  also proposes cognacy with 🇨🇬 by pointing to a semantic parallel between 🇨🇬 and 🇨🇬.

Alternatively, possibly related to "to divide into equal sections", yet Schuessler also noted that early Chinese villages were not systematically planned and platted.

Definitions

 * 1) li a unit of distance equal to half a kilometre in modern Mainland China
 * 2) neighbourhood formal or informal grouping of adjacent dwellings; the size vary according to different historical sources
 * 3) urban village an administrative unit in the Republic of China
 * 4) village an administrative unit in South Korea and North Korea
 * 5) lane a type of road in Hong Kong
 * 1) village an administrative unit in South Korea and North Korea
 * 2) lane a type of road in Hong Kong

Descendants
Others:

Etymology 1
→ * →

From, from.

Ultimately derivation. Theories include a compound of either or  +  or. Other theories have been suggested but are unlikely.

Noun

 * 1) a village
 * 2) a country house
 * 3) one's hometown
 * 4) the country, countryside
 * 5) the original home of a household member
 * 6) a separate home or boarding situation to which one's own children are sent for upbringing or education
 * 7) a red-light district
 * 8) one's birth, parentage, origins
 * 9)  boorishness, hickishness
 * 10) the lay world
 * 1) one's birth, parentage, origins
 * 2)  boorishness, hickishness
 * 3) the lay world

Adjective

 * 1)  boorish, hickish

Proper noun

 * 1) a placename

Etymology 2
From.

Compare modern Chinese.

Noun

 * 1) a unit of distance:
 * 2) under the  system, defined as equal to 300  or 1500
 * 3) from the early modern until the end of the, defined as equal to 36 , approximately between 3.6 to 4.2 kilometers
 * 4) from the mid-, defined as equal to $129,600/33$ meters, approximately 3.927 kilometers or 2.44 miles
 * 5)  under the  system, a unit of area for regional administration, equal to 50

Affix

 * 1) village

Etymology 3
Various nanori readings. Perhaps the satoshi reading is from, while the zato is a voiced version of sato above.

Proper noun



 * 1) a placename

Etymology 1
From, from. The original "hamlet" sense is now only found in place names.

Noun

 * 1)  beau, lover

Usage notes
Used from a woman to a man. The term for a homeland is, and the term for a village is either or.

Etymology 2
From. Possibly from.

Suffix

 * 1) a unit of distance:
 * 2) under the  system, defined as equal to 300 Japanese  or 1500 Japanese
 * 3) from the early modern until the end of the, defined as equal to 36 Japanese , approximately between 3.6 to 4.2 kilometers
 * 4) from the mid-, defined as equal to $129,600/33$ meters, approximately 3.927 kilometers or 2.44 miles

Etymology
From.

. Theories include a compound of either or  +  or. Other theories have been suggested but are unlikely.

Noun

 * 1) a village
 * 2) under the  system:
 * 3) a unit of area for regional administration, defined as equal to 50
 * 4) a unit of distance, defined as equal to 300  or 1500
 * 5) one's home of birth
 * 6) one's hometown
 * 1) one's home of birth
 * 2) one's hometown
 * 1) one's hometown