Skip to content
Nihongo Circle
.
Lessons
Learn
Road map
Study guides
Kana
Dictionary
Grammar
Immersion
Culture
Practice
Tomo challenges
Games
Mock exam
Reading level
Your space
Cosmetics shop
Sign up free
Lessons
Dictionary
Games
Explore
All levels
Study level
Sign in
Dictionary
里親
さとおや
noun
Meanings
1
foster parent
2
foster parents
3
(pet) caretaker
Your sentences
Mine a sentence — saw 里親 in the wild?
Kanji in this word
親
Parent, Intimacy, Relative
16 strokes
More words with
里
里
り ·
Japanese league
郷里
きょうり ·
birth-place
N1
古里
ふるさと ·
home town
N2
千里
せんり ·
1000 ri
万里
ばんり ·
thousands of miles
里子
さとご ·
foster child
More words with
親
父親
ちちおや ·
father
N3
母親
ははおや ·
mother
N3
親
おや ·
a parent
N4
両親
りょうしん ·
parents (lit., both parents)
N5
親子
おやこ ·
Full entry on Jisho
里帰り
さとがえり ·
returning home to one's parents (orig. of a married person)
巴里
パリ ·
Paris (France)
parent and child
親類
しんるい ·
relative(s) (same as 親戚 (しんせき))
N2
親善
しんぜん ·
friendship
N1
肉親
にくしん ·
blood relationship
N1