小便一町糞一里
しょうべんいっちょうくそいちり
- if you visit the toilet while traveling, you will fall behind your fellow travelers; one chō for a piss, one ri for a shit exp arch proverb
Kanji
小
ショウ
ちい.さい • こ- • お- • さ-
little; small
便
ベン • ビン
たよ.り
convenience; facility; excrement; feces; letter; chance
一
イチ • イツ
ひと- • ひと.つ
one; one radical (no.1)
町
チョウ
まち
town; village; block; street
一
イチ • イツ
ひと- • ひと.つ
one; one radical (no.1)
里
リ
さと
ri; village; parent's home; league
Synonyms
町
まち ちょう
- town; block; neighbourhood; neighborhood n
- downtown; main street n
- street; road n
- 109.09 m n
- 0.99 hectares n
里
さと り
- village; hamlet n
- countryside; country n
- home (of one's parents, etc.); hometown n
- one's origins; one's upbringing; one's past n
- Japanese league; ri; old Japanese unit of distance, approx. 3.927km or 2.44 miles n
- neighbourhood (under the ritsuryo system; orig. of 50 homes) n
- unit of area (approx. 654m by 654m) n