千里

1. Origins, structure, and basic meaning

• Structure: Written 千里 and read せんり, it literally refers to a thousand traditional distance units and often evokes an immense distance.
• Basic usage: It gives scale to a traveler's long journey and to separation far from one's home.

2. Common pitfalls and similar expressions

• Measurement versus rhetorical distance
  • The phrase may be numerical, but often its purpose is to stress remoteness rather than specify an exact modern distance.