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
リ
Kun readings
ことわり
Words with 理
LevelWord & meaningActions
- —哲理philosophic principles; philosophy
- —非理unreasonable; illogical
- —実理practical theory
- —純理pure reason; pure logic
- —文理humanities and sciences; reason; logic; line of thought (in a piece of writing); thread (of meaning)
- —背理absurdity; irrationality
- —情理emotion and reason; logic and emotion; justice and compassion (criminal justice context)
- —理外supra-rational
- —理財finance; economy
- —理数science and mathematics
- —薬理effect of a drug
- —法理legal principle
- —木理grain (of wood)
- —窮理study of natural laws; branch of neo-Confusianist scholarship
- —脈理cord; cording; stria; striae
- —理体essence of all things; noumenon
- —理力the Force (in Star Wars)
- —葉理lamina
- —有理rational; rational (number or function)
- —水理hydraulic; hydrologic