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
- —技術者倫理engineering ethics
- —倫理委員会ethics committee
- —倫理的宗教ethical religion
- —汎論理主義panlogism
- —動物地理区zoogeographical region
- —無理のないnatural; reasonable; understandable
- —カオス理論chaos theory
- —連合心理学association psychology
- —動物心理学animal psychology
- —病理解剖学morbid anatomy
- —税理士試験certified tax accountant exam (examination); tax accountant exam (examination)
- —料理バサミkitchen scissors; cooking shears
- —志望理由書statement of purpose; essay/letter in university application form
- —義理が悪いfailing in one's duty (e.g. to someone)
- —割れ窓理論broken windows theory; criminological theory stating that serious crime can be prevented by maintaining the good physical condition of an urban environment
- —料理評論家food critic
- —無理を言うto ask a big favour; to ask unreasonable things; to be unreasonable
- —後処理費用after-treatment expenses (esp. nuclear waste); cleanup costs
- —再処理工場reprocessing plant
- —多数決原理principle of majority rule