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り
Meanings
Noun
1. Japanese league; ri; old Japanese unit of distance, approx. 3.927 km or 2.44 miles
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)
Alt. forms
里り
100%
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Pitch accent
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Used in vocabulary (23 in total)
verst; Russian mile
1000 ri; (a) long distance
dialect; language of the common people; colloquial language; slang
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Examples (3 in total)
The village is about ten ri from here.
After walking a full three ri, I'm about due to get hungry.
It is another two and a half ri to Kameyama.