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里 = 田 + 土
里 is a Japanese kanji written with 7 strokes, listed here under the keyword “ri”. It is built from 田 (rice field) and 土 (soil). In Remembering the Kanji by James W. Heisig it is frame 185. It appears as a component in 16 other characters in this index.
- Keyword
- ri
- RTK frame
- 185
- Strokes
- 7
- On'yomi (Sino-Japanese reading)
- リ
- Kun'yomi (native Japanese reading)
- さと
- Script
- Japanese kanji
- Also known as
- computer, ри, village
- Same glyph as a simplified Chinese hanzi
- 里 unit of distance
Decomposition
Primary decomposition
Characters that contain 里
- 黒 black
- 鯉 carp
- 量 quantity
- 厘 rin
- 埋 bury
- 黙 silence
- 理 logic
- 裏 back
- 童 juvenile
- 野 plains
- 重 heavy
- 狸 racoon dog
- 纏 summarize
- 哩 mile
- 浬 nautical mile
- 裡 back (old)
How to find 里 without knowing its reading
On KumiJi Glyph Explorer, open the parts search and type “rice field” + “soil”. 里 is among the results, together with every other character containing the same shapes.
Open 里 in the interactive kanji search to expand every part down to its smallest pieces, add your own names and mnemonic stories, or search for other characters by their parts.