Meanings
Readings
Common Words
village; hamlet
countryside; country
้ only
home (of one's parents, etc.); hometown
้ only
one's origins; one's upbringing; one's past
Japanese league; ri; old Japanese unit of distance, approx. 3.927 km or 2.44 miles
neighbourhood (under the ritsuryล system; orig. of 50 homes)
unit of area (approx. 654 m by 654 m)
Paris (France)
Word usually written using kana alone
hometown; birthplace; native place; one's old home
Archaic
ruins; historic remains
1000 ri; (a) long distance
hometown; birthplace
returning home to one's parents (orig. of a married person); visiting one's parents (for a prolonged period of stay)
bride's first visit to her parents after getting married
coming back (of an item; after having been on loan, etc. abroad)
Archaic
temporarily returning to one's home (of a servant)
Memory Mnemonics
Keywords
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Constituents
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Mnemonic Stories
A ri is an old measure of distance: how far a farmer could walk from his rice field to the edge of his land before needing a break (about 4 kilometers or 2.5 miles).
As a primitive, weโll use it to mean computer (derived from the kanji for logic which includes this kanji).
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