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Kanji for Hometown
The kanji for “hometown” is 里, read ri and written in 7 strokes. Here is what it means, how it is read, and the names it is used in.
hometown
A village or home ground; the place you come back to.
7 strokes On reading リ (ri) Kun reading さと (sato) JLPT N1
Dictionary meanings: ri, village, parent's home, league
Readings used for names on Nazuke: sato, ri
In Japan it appears in about 3,593 given names in the JMnedict name dictionary, mostly in girls’ names.
Names written with 里: Eric 永里空 · Mary 芽愛里 · Erica 永里佳 · Erika 永里佳 · Haley 平里 · Julia 寿里愛 · Maria 満里愛 · Molly 百里 · Adrian 栄登里杏 · Alyssa 安里咲 · Andrew 杏登里 · Ashley 安朱里 and 992 more
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