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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

  1. 田 rice field
  2. 土 soil

Characters that contain 里

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.