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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Words with 理
LevelWord & meaningActions
- —先の総理大臣former prime minister
- —道理に外れたcontrary to reason
- —理解を深めるto cultivate a better understanding
- —理性に訴えるto appeal to one's reason
- —主辞素性原理head feature principle; HFP
- —束縛継承原理binding inheritance principle; BIP
- —統率束縛理論government-binding theory
- —オウム真理教Aum Shinrikyo; religious group responsible for the 1995 sarin gas attack on the Tokyo subway
- —ゲームの理論game theory
- —ダイナモ理論dynamo theory
- —パウリの原理Pauli exclusion principle; Pauli's principle
- —一般均衡理論general equilibrium theory
- —科学的管理法scientific management
- —核燃料再処理nuclear fuel reprocessing
- —管理通貨制度managed currency system
- —企業危機管理corporate risk management
- —非常任理事国non-permanent member (UN Security Council)
- —不正会計処理improper bookkeeping
- —不良債権処理disposal of bad loans
- —公務員管理職executive positions in the civil service