り — meaning in English

English meaning

• er intj Used to fill a pause while thinking of what to say next.
• Yi noun A member of an ethnic group living mainly in the mountainous regions of southwest China.

Senses

り is used for these senses in English:

• er (added to certain adjectives and adverbs, now especially short ones) More; used to form the comparative.
• y Added to nouns and adjectives to form adjectives meaning “having the quality of”, either “involving the referent” or “analogous to it”.
• Yi A surname from Korean. Equivalent to Chinese 李 (Lǐ)

er — full definition

1. intj Used to fill a pause while thinking of what to say next.
2. verb To hesitate in speech, making a sound like "er."

Yi — full definition

1. noun A member of an ethnic group living mainly in the mountainous regions of southwest China.
2. noun Any of a group of Tibeto-Burman languages spoken by the Yi people.

Related Japanese words