里

里 (radical 166, 里+0, 7 strokes, cangjie input 田土 (WG), four-corner 6010₄, composition ⿱田土)

1. Kangxi radical #166, ⾥.

• Index:Chinese radical/里
• 埋 理 (理) 狸 (貍) 裡 (裏) 𧻲

• KangXi: page 1291, character 2
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 40131
• Dae Jaweon: page 1791, character 6
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 6, page 3680, character 1
• Unihan data for U+91CC

Historical forms of the character 里
Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)
Small seal script

Ideogrammic compound (會意) : 田 (“field”) + 土 (“soil; earth”) – a measure of land and fields; mile; place.

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *r/g-wa (“village”) (STEDT). Cognate with 丘 (OC *kʰʷɯ) "hill, mound" & 街 (OC *kreː, *kreː) "road crossing, street"; outsides Sinitic, cognate with Mizo khua (“village”), Lai khûa (“village, cosmos”), Burmese ရွာ (rwa, “village”); Schuessler (2007) also proposes cognacy with Tibetan ར་བ (ra ba, “fence, enclosure, wall, pen”) by pointing to a semantic parallel between English town and German Zaun (“fence”).

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

里

1. li (a unit of distance equal to half a kilometre in modern Mainland China)

   公里  ―  gōnglǐ  ―  kilometre

2. urban village (an administrative unit in the Republic of China)
3. lane (a type of road in Hong Kong)
4. A surname​.

Others:

• English: li

(grade 2 “Kyōiku” kanji)

• Go-on: り (ri, Jōyō)
• Kan-on: り (ri, Jōyō)
• Kun: さと (sato, 里, Jōyō); みちのり (michinori, 里)
• Nanori: か (ka); さ (sa); さとし (satoshi); と (to); のり (nori)

⟨sato₁⟩ → */satʷo/ → /sato/

From Old Japanese.[1]

Ultimately derivation unknown.

• Kun’yomi
  • (Tokyo) さと [sàtó] (Heiban – [0])[2][3]
  • IPA^(key): [sa̠to̞]

• (village, hometown): 郷

里 (hiragana さと, rōmaji sato)

1. a village

   Synonyms: 村 (mura), 村里 (murazato)

2. a country house
3. one's hometown

   Synonyms: 田舎 (inaka), 故郷 (kokyō)

4. the country, countryside
5. the original home of a household member (such as a wife, adoptee, or other person who has joined the household from outside)
6. a separate home or boarding situation to which one's own children are sent for upbringing or education
7. a red-light district

   Synonym: 遊里 (yūri)

8. one's birth, parentage, origins
9. (slang, red-light district) boorishness, hickishness
10. the lay world (as opposed to life within a temple)
11. (uncommon, historical, obsolete) Same as り (ri) below

里 (-na inflection, hiragana さと, rōmaji sato)

1. (slang, red-light district) boorish, hickish

里 (hiragana さと, rōmaji Sato)

1. a placename
2. a surname
3. a female given name

From Middle Chinese 里 (MC lɨ^X).

Compare modern Chinese 里 (lǐ).

• On’yomi
  • (Tokyo) り​ [ríꜜ] (Atamadaka – [1])[2][3]
  • IPA^(key): [ɾʲi]

里 (hiragana り, rōmaji ri)

1. a unit of distance:
   1. under the 律令 (Ritsuryō) system, defined as equal to 300 歩 (bu) or 1500 尺 (shaku)
   2. from the early modern until the end of the Edo period, defined as equal to 36 町 (chō), approximately between 3.6 to 4.2 kilometers
   3. from the mid-Meiji period, defined as equal to ^129,600⁄₃₃ meters, approximately 3.927 kilometers or 2.44 miles
2. (historical) under the 律令 (Ritsuryō) system, a unit of area for regional administration, equal to 50 戸 (ko, “houses”)

• 英里 (えいり) (eiri, “mile”)
• 海 (かい)里 (り) (kairi, “nautical mile”)

Various nanori readings.

里 (hiragana さとし, rōmaji Satoshi)

1. a male given name

里 (hiragana ざと, rōmaji Zato)

1. a placename

里 (eumhun 마을 리 (ma-eul ri), South Korea 마을 이 (ma-eul i))

1. village
2. Hanja form^? of 리 (“a li, a Korean "mile" of about 393 m”).

• 郷

Unknown.

里 (sato₁) (kana さと)

1. a village
   • 711–712, Kojiki (Second scroll, Emperor Suinin)

     於是、圓野比賣慚言「同兄弟之中、以姿醜被還之事、聞於隣里、是甚慚。」而、到山代國之相樂時、取懸樹枝而欲死、故號其地謂懸木、今云相樂。

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   • c. 759, Man'yōshū (book 15, poem 3782)

     安麻其毛理毛能母布等伎爾保等登芸須和我須武佐刀爾伎那伎等余母須

     amago₂mori mo₂no₂'mopu to₂ki₁ ni poto₂to₂gi₁su waga sumu sato₁ ni ki₁naki₁to₂yo₂mosu

     (please add an English translation of this usage example)

2. under the 律令 (Ritsuryō) system:
   1. a unit of area for regional administration, defined as equal to 50 戸 (ko, “houses”)
   2. a unit of distance, defined as equal to 300 歩 (bu) or 1500 尺 (shaku)
3. one's home of birth
   • c. 759, Man'yōshū (book 6, poem 1026)

     百礒城乃大宮人者今日毛鴨暇无跡里爾不出將有

     momosiki no₂ opomi₁yapi₁to₂ pa ke₁pu mo ka mo ito₂ma wo nami₁to₂ sato₁ ni idezu aramu

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4. one's hometown
   • c. 759, Man'yōshū (book 12, poem 3134)

     里離遠有莫國草枕旅登之思者尚戀來

     sato₁ panare to₂poku aranaku ni kusamakura tabi₁ to₂ si omopeba napo ko₁pi₂nike₁ri

     (please add an English translation of this usage example)

• 里人 (sato₁bi₁to₂)
• ふるさと (purusato₁)
• 小里 (wosato₁)

• Japanese: 里 (さと, sato)

里: Hán Việt readings: lý[1][2], lí[3]
里: Nôm readings: lý[2][4], lái[1], rưới[1], trẻ[1], lia[2], lí[3], lịa[3]

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