海里

Japanese

kanjitab

Definitions

a nautical mile: the length of roughly one minute of latitude, 1,852 meters

Etymology

Compound from Japanese 海 (sea, ocean) + Japanese 里 (village, unit of distance, home, league).

Origin

Japanese

里

Gloss

village, unit of distance, home, league

Concept

Semantic Field

Social and political relations

Ontological Category

Person/Thing

`Kanji`

宅

Emoji

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Distribution of cognates by language

Geogrpahic distribution of cognates

Cognates and derived terms

ふるさと Japanese
ウミネコ Japanese
ウミユリ Japanese
北極海 Japanese
南シナ海 Japanese
東シナ海 Japanese
海 Japanese
海イグアナ Japanese
海兵 Japanese
海原 Japanese
海士 Japanese
海月 Japanese
海牛 Japanese
海蜥蜴 Japanese
荒海 Japanese
里 Japanese
里山 Japanese
里親 Japanese
露里 Japanese
*omi Proto-Japonic