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In a jōyō kanji list I read, there are 2 kanji for village. One of them 里 is
just mentioned in the jōyō kanji list to mean "village", it is mentioned in
another book to mean a measure of distances that is about 4 km or 2.5 miles.
Does it have 2 meanings? Is one of the meanings obsolete or wrong?
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Does this kanji for "village" have 2 different meanings?
It does have the two meanings you mentioned: a unit of distance 里{り} (which is
more or less 4km), and the meaning village 里{さと}.

Note that 里{り} is a counter. 一里｛いちり｝・二里｛にり｝・三里｛さんり｝… (be precise because 一里 is
not read as ひとり).

However, the unit of distance is obsolete, and the meaning for village is not
used anymore productively. You will still find it in place names and in some
words like 古里{ふるさと}, but nothing more.
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