Definition of きかんり
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(n) chrysanthemum (Chrysanthemum morifolium)
菊はよい香りがする。
Chrysanthemums smell sweet.
- (n) advantage; benefit; profit; interest
- (n) an official
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(n) ri (old Japanese unit of distance, approx. 3.927km or 2.44 miles)
100里を行く者は99里を半ばとする。
There's many a slip between the cup and the lip. - neighbourhood (under the ritsuryo system; orig. of 50 homes)
- unit of area (approx. 654m by 654m)
- (n) opening line; opening line of a (Chinese) poem
- (n) rule; standard; compass and ruler
- (int) used to express approval, especially in slurred or unclear speech (abbr. of interjection "un")
- negative verb ending used in informal speech (abbr. of negative verb ending "nu")
- abbr. of particle "no"
- abbr. of particle "ni" (used especially when it precedes the verb "naru")
- (n) li (one of the trigrams of the I Ching: fire, south)