里

village; hamlet

countryside; country

里 only

home (of one's parents, etc.); hometown

里 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 ritsuryō system; orig. of 50 homes)

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

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)

foster parent; foster parents

(pet) caretaker

foster child

adopted animal (e.g. pet)

taro (Colocasia esculenta); dasheen; eddo

villager; village folk; countryfolk

village

homesickness; nostalgia

undeveloped woodland near populated area

settlement pattern of living in upland valleys and cultivating lower slopes

mileage; distance

wife's family

any oriental variety of cherry tree descended from the Oshima cherry

returning to one's parents' house to give birth; giving birth at one's parents' home

imperial palace temporarily built outside of the great imperial palace (Heian period)

milepost; milestone

kagura performance held somewhere other than the imperial palace

mileage; distance

mountain village (region)

non-legal public road (sometimes no longer physically existing)

mountain villages and neighbouring agricultural, forest, etc. areas

rural community development; rural community activation

adoption event for homeless animals

foster parents association

Linguistics

countryside dialect

Linguistics

sociolect or secret language used by prostitutes in red-light districts during the Edo period