里 - ri, village, parent's home

foster parent; foster parents

milestone (1 ri apart)

hometown; birthplace

thousands of miles

Japanese league; ri; old Japanese unit of distance, approx. 3.927 km or 2.44 miles

1000 ri; (a) long distance

returning home to one's parents (orig. of a married person); visiting one's parents (for a prolonged period of stay)

foster child

alkali

Paris (France)

imperial palace temporarily built outside of the great imperial palace (Heian period)

returning to one's parents' house to give birth; giving birth at one's parents' home