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理
Grade Level: 2
JLPT Level: 3
Frequency: 86
Bushu (Radical) Info: 王 (オウ, -ノウ, おお, おおきみ, わ) king; rule; magnate 玉 (ギョク, たま, たま-, -だま, おう, だん) jewel; ball
Henshall Mnemonic: keeping jewels in village is reasonable
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Stroke Order Diagram (SOD): 11 Strokes

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On-Yomi Reading(s):
リ
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Kun-Yomi Reading(s):
ことわり
あや
おさむ
さと
さとる
ただ
ただし
とおる
に
のり
ひ
まこと
まさ
まさし
まろ
みち
よし
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English Meaning(s):
logic
arrangement
reason
justice
truth
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- お節料理 [おせちりょうり]
food served during the New Year's Holidays [K] [D]
- 監理 [かんり]
(n) superintendence; supervision [K] [D]
- 管理 [かんり]
(n,vs) control; management (e.g. of a business) [K] [D]
- 管理職 [かんりしょく]
(n) management [K] [D]
- 義理 [ぎり]
(n,adj-no) duty; sense of duty; honor; decency; courtesy; debt of gratitude; social obligation [K] [D]
- 経理 [けいり]
(n) management; accounting [K] [D]
- 原理 [げんり]
(n) principle; theory; fundamental truth [K] [D]
- 合理 [ごうり]
(n) rational [K] [D]
- 合理化 [ごうりか]
(n,vs) rationalization; rationalize [K] [D]
- 合理的 [ごうりてき]
(adj-na) rational; reasonable; logical [K] [D]
- 国土地理院 [こくどちりいん]
Geographical Survey Institute [K] [D]
- 受理 [じゅり]
(n,vs) acceptance [K] [D]
- 修理 [しゅうり]
(n,vs) repairing; mending [K] [D]
- 処理 [しょり]
(n,vs) processing; dealing with; treatment; disposition; disposal [K] [D]
- 情報処理 [じょうほうしょり]
(n) data processing [K] [D]
- 条理 [じょうり]
(n) reason [K] [D]
- 審理 [しんり]
(n) trial [K] [D]
- 心理 [しんり]
(n) mentality [K] [D]
- 心理学 [しんりがく]
(n) psychology [K] [D]
- 真理 [しんり]
(n) truth [K] [D]
- 推理 [すいり]
(n) reasoning; inference; mystery or detective genre (movie, novel, etc.) [K] [D]
- 推理小説 [すいりしょうせつ]
mystery or detective novel [K] [D]
- 整理 [せいり]
(n,vs) sorting; arrangement; adjustment; regulation [K] [D]
- 生理 [せいり]
(n) physiology; menses [K] [D]
- 生理学 [せいりがく]
(n) physiology [K] [D]
- 税理士 [ぜいりし]
(n) tax counsellor [K] [D]
- 摂理 [せつり]
(n) (divine) Providence [K] [D]
- 総理 [そうり]
(n,vs) prime minister; leader; overseer (of national affairs); president [K] [D]
- 総理大臣 [そうりだいじん]
Prime Minister [K] [D]
- 総理府 [そうりふ]
(n) Prime Minister's office [K] [D]
- 代理 [だいり]
(n) representation; agency; proxy; deputy; agent; attorney; substitute; alternate; acting (principal, etc.) [K] [D]
- 代理店 [だいりてん]
(n) agent; agency [K] [D]
- 大理石 [だいりせき]
(n) marble [K] [D]
- 地理 [ちり]
(n) geography [K] [D]
- 調理 [ちょうり]
(n,vs) cooking [K] [D]
- 天理 [てんり]
(n) natural laws; rule of heaven [K] [D]
- 道理 [どうり]
(n) reason; truth [K] [D]
- 入国管理局 [にゅうこくかんりきょく]
immigration office [K] [D]
- 病理 [びょうり]
(n) pathology [K] [D]
- 不合理 [ふごうり]
(adj-na,n) unreasonable; irrational; absurd; inconsistent [K] [D]
- 不条理 [ふじょうり]
(adj-na,n) absurdity; irrationality; inconsistency [K] [D]
- 物理 [ぶつり]
(n) physics [K] [D]
- 物理学 [ぶつりがく]
(n) physics [K] [D]
- 無理 [むり]
(adj-na,n,vs) unreasonable; impossible; overdoing [K] [D]
- 無理やり [むりやり]
(adv,n) forcibly; against one's will [K] [D]
- 理 [り]
(n) reason [K] [D]
- 理科 [りか]
(n) science [K] [D]
- 理解 [りかい]
(n,vs) understanding; comprehension [K] [D]
- 理学 [りがく]
(n) physical science [K] [D]
- 理学部 [りがくぶ]
(n) department of science [K] [D]
- 理屈 [りくつ]
(n) theory; reason [K] [D]
- 理系 [りけい]
(n) science [K] [D]
- 理工 [りこう]
(n) science and technology [K] [D]
- 理工学部 [りこうがくぶ]
(n) department of science and engineering [K] [D]
- 理事 [りじ]
(n) director; board of directors [K] [D]
- 理性 [りせい]
(n) reason; sense [K] [D]
- 理想 [りそう]
(n) ideal [K] [D]
- 理想的 [りそうてき]
(adj-na) ideal [K] [D]
- 理念 [りねん]
(n) idea [K] [D]
- 理髪 [りはつ]
(n) haircut [K] [D]
- 理不尽 [りふじん]
(adj-na,n) unreasonable; irrational [K] [D]
- 理由 [りゆう]
(n) reason; pretext; motive [K] [D]
- 理論 [りろん]
(n) theory [K] [D]
- 料理 [りょうり]
(n,vs) cooking; cookery; cuisine [K] [D]
- 料理屋 [りょうりや]
(n) restaurant [K] [D]
- 倫理 [りんり]
(n) ethics; morals [K] [D]
- 倫理学 [りんりがく]
(n) ethics; moral philosophy [K] [D]
- 倫理的 [りんりてき]
(adj-na) ethical [K] [D]
- 論理 [ろんり]
(n) logic [K] [D]
- 論理的 [ろんりてき]
(adj-na) logical [K] [D]
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