Definition of くせり
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(n) habit (often a bad habit, i.e. vice)
その子は悪い癖が直った。
He was cured of his bad habits. - peculiarity; idiosyncrasy; mannerism
- crease; wrinkle; curl; kink
- (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) li (one of the trigrams of the I Ching: fire, south)