リ, さと, さ

ri, village, parent's home, league

JLPT0 G2 S7 F1096

field + # pile of earth → long strip of piled earth/land with alternating cultivated and noncultivated sectors → *village*; *the country(side)*; *one's hometown*. Also a *unit of length*, approximately three kilometers.

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