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理 kanji
logic, arrangement, reason, justice, truth
- JLPT level
- N4 (unofficial)
- First appears in
- N5 vocabulary
- Strokes
- 11
- School grade
- Grade 2 (elementary school)
On readings
リ
Kun readings
ことわり
Words with 理
LevelWord & meaningActions
- N5料理Popularcooking; cookery; cuisine; food; dish; dealing with (skillfully); handling (well); managing
- N4地理Populargeography
- N4無理Popularunreasonable; unnatural; unjustifiable; impossible; forcible; forced; compulsory; excessive (work, etc.); immoderate; to work too hard; to try too hard; no way; not a chance; never; dream on; irrational
- N4理由Popularreason; grounds; pretext; excuse; motive
- N3管理Popularcontrol; management (e.g. of a business)
- N3修理Popularrepair; mending; fixing; servicing
- N3処理Popularprocessing; dealing with; treatment; disposition; disposal
- N3心理Popularstate of mind; mentality; psychology
- N3整理Popularsorting; arrangement; organization; putting in order; adjustment; regulation; liquidation; settlement; consolidation; clearance (e.g. debt); paying off; retrenchment; curtailment; cutting down; disposal
- N3代理Popularrepresentation; agency; proxy; proxy; agent; representative; deputy; substitute; surrogate; stand-in
- N3物理Popularlaws of nature; physical laws; physics
- N3理解Popularunderstanding; comprehension; appreciation; sympathy
- N3理想Popularideal; ideals
- N2原理Popularprinciple; theory; fundamental truth
- N2合理Popularrationality
- N2理科Popularscience (natural sciences and related fields, incl. mathematics, engineering, medicine, etc.); faculties of science, engineering, medicine, etc. (at a university); science (as a school subject)
- N2総理大臣Popularprime minister (as the head of a cabinet government); premier
- N1義理Popularduty; sense of duty; honor; honour; decency; courtesy; debt of gratitude; social obligation; in-law; relation by marriage
- N1真理Populartruth
- N1推理Popularreasoning; inference; deduction; mystery genre; detective genre