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)
On readings
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Kun readings
ことわり
Words with 理
LevelWord & meaningActions
- —お節料理Popularosechi; osechi-ryōri; traditional food eaten during the New Year's holidays
- —無理矢理Popularforcibly; by force; against one's will
- —一理(a) principle; (a) reason; (a) point; some truth
- —学理scholarly principle; scientific principle
- —教理doctrine
- —空理empty theory; impracticable theory
- —公理axiom; maxim; self-evident truth
- —事理reason; facts; propriety; sense
- —掌理rule of law; administration of justice
- —数理mathematical principle; mathematics; arithmetic; figures; accounts
- —定理theorem; proposition
- —不理unreasonable; irrational; illogical
- —弁理management; disposition; handling
- —理神deism; belief in God as creator of universe
- —理知intellect; intelligence
- —理非right and wrong
- —理法law
- —連理trees with entwined branches; intimate male and female relationship
- —理路logic; reasoning; argument
- —理容barbering; haircutting; hairdressing