里 – Vocabulary details

里り

Noun

1. Japanese league; ri; old Japanese unit of distance, approx. 3.927 km or 2.44 miles

三さん里りも歩あるいて、そろそろ腹はらも減へるころだ。After walking a full three ri, I'm about due to get hungry.

2. neighbourhood (under the ritsuryō system; orig. of 50 homes)

3. unit of area (approx. 654 m by 654 m)

home village

り

great distance; thousands of miles; (lit.) ten thousand ri

1000 ri; (a) long distance

hometown; birthplace

村むらの場ば所しょはここから十じゅう里りほど。

The village is about ten ri from here.

三さん里りも歩あるいて、そろそろ腹はらも減へるころだ。

After walking a full three ri, I'm about due to get hungry.

亀かめ山やままであと二に里り半はんでございます。

It is another two and a half ri to Kameyama.

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