Where does “里” come from?

里 (Japanese) comes from Japanese 聡い — clever, keen, smart, quick on the uptake.

里 (Japanese): a village; a country house; one's hometown

Definitions

  1. a village; a country house; one's hometown

Ancestry of “里”, step by step

里 traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Japanese 聡い

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Japanese聡いclever, keen, smart, quick on the uptake

via Middle Chinese 里

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Middle Chinese里—

Words derived from “里”

Every word from Japanese 聡い →