Illustration: A small hamlet sits in a sheltered Japanese valley, with a handful of houses clustered beside terraced fields and a narrow irrigation channel. In the shared lane, a farmer passes a basket of vegetables to a neighbor while two children return home past a tiny communal storehouse.

JLPT N1nounLevel estimated by Bebop

里さと

sato

village, hamlet

Example sentences

  1. 宇治市うじしの里さとにまた春はるがめぐってきた。

    Spring has come again to a village in Uji.

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  2. 山やまあいの里さとには、小ちいさな学校がっこうがある。

    There’s a small school in the mountain village.

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  3. 雪ゆきが降ふると、この里さとはとても静しずかになる。

    When it snows, this village becomes very quiet.

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Kanji in 里

  • 里ri; villageOnリKunさと

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