Kanji1 / 11
理 kanji
logic, arrangement, reason, justice, truth
- JLPT level
- N4 (unofficial)
- First appears in
- N5 vocabulary
- Strokes
- 11
- School grade
- Grade 2 (elementary school)
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Kun readings
ことわり
Words with 理
LevelWord & meaningActions
- —整理整頓keeping things tidy and in order
- —整理淘汰reorganizing an industry or enterprise and weeding out redundant workers; readjustment and retrenchment
- —相互理解mutual understanding
- —天理人道the laws of nature and humanity
- —天理人情the laws of nature and humanity
- —道理至極very reasonable; being perfectly consistent with reason; standing to reason
- —廃合整理reorganization; restructuring
- —無理非道unreasonable and unjust; unconscionable
- —理論武装being prepared for a theoretical (ideological) argument; being armed with theoretical backing
- —類推推理reasoning by analogy; analogical inference; analogism
- —理論化学theoretical chemistry
- —原価管理cost management; cost tracking
- —理科離れdeclining interest in the natural sciences (among youth)
- —一元管理centralized management; integrated management; central control
- —支那料理Chinese food
- —中国料理Chinese food
- —物理工学physical engineering
- —補助定理lemma
- —基本理念basic principle; fundamental principle
- —屁理屈屋sophist; quibbler