• 里帰さとがえり — returning to one’s parents’ home
• 郷里きょうり — native village
• 万里ばんり — thousands of miles
• 里山さとやま — village forest
• 里心さとごころ — homesickness, longing for home

The character 里 combines the ideas of land (土) and rice field (田), originally symbolizing a village or rural land. Over time, it came to represent not only physical villages but also hometowns, emotional roots, and even a unit of distance.