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25 word matches found for '里' using reading 'さと'
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Most common form: ふるさと
noun
1. home town; birthplace; native place; one's old home  (often written with kana only)
2. ruins; historic remains  (archaic; this meaning is restricted to reading ふるさと)
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noun
taro (Colocasia esculenta); dasheen; eddo  (often written with kana only)
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noun
homesickness; nostalgia
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noun
foster child  (see also: 里親)
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foster parent; foster parents  (see also: 里子)
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returning home; visiting one's parents; new bride's first visit to parents
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noun
1. undeveloped woodland near populated area
2. settlement pattern of living in upland valleys and cultivating lower slopes  (see also: 里海)
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noun
1. one's parents' home  (honorific; polite (teineigo) language)
2. one's origins; one's upbringing; one's past
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Most common form: 里づくり
noun
rural community development; rural community activation  (see also: 村づくり)
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noun
village  (see also: 村里)
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noun
snow that falls on villages  (see also: 山雪)
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noun
returning to one's parent's house to give birth; giving birth at one's parent's home
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noun
wife's family
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noun
1. adoption event for homeless animals
2. foster parents association
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noun
pet dog; domesticated dog  (opposite: 山犬)
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noun
kanji "village" radical
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noun
any oriental variety of cherry tree descended from the Oshima cherry  (see also: 大島桜)
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noun
kagura performance held somewhere other than the imperial palace  (see also: 御神楽)
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expression, ichidan verb
to reveal one's upbringing (through one's words, actions, etc.); to betray one's origin; to give oneself away  (see also: お里, 親の顔が見たい)
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noun
exhibition of returned works (e.g. from overseas)
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noun
imperial palace temporarily built outside of the great imperial palace (Heian period)  (see also: 内裏)
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noun
pasturing cattle in summer and feeding them indoors during winter; rotated grazing  (see also: 夏山冬里方式; yojijukugo)
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noun
rotated grazing
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noun
Araceae; arum family of plants
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noun
1. village; hamlet
2. countryside; country
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