Definition of りつり
- (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) law (esp. ancient East Asian criminal code); regulation
- (Buddh) vinaya (rules for the monastic community)
- Ritsu (school of Buddhism)
- lushi (style of Chinese poem)
- (musical) pitch
- six odd-numbered notes of the ancient chromatic scale
- Japanese seven-tone gagaku scale, similar to Dorian mode (corresponding to: re, mi, fa, so, la, ti, do)
- (n, n-suf, ctr) (in traditional Eastern music) step (corresponding to a Western semitone)
- (n) li (one of the trigrams of the I Ching: fire, south)