理

Meaning

理 centers on the underlying order that makes sense of things: the logic, reason, or principle behind an arrangement, and the justice or truth that follows from that order.

• 理由りゆう
  N4

  reason; grounds; pretext; excuse; motive

• 無理むり
  N5

  unreasonable; unnatural; unjustifiable

• 理解りかい
  N3

  understanding; comprehension; appreciation

• 管理かんり
  N3

  control; management (e.g. of a business)

• 料理りょうり
  N5

  cooking; cookery; cuisine; food; dish

• 処理しょり
  N2

  processing; dealing with; treatment; disposition; disposal

• 心理しんり
  N3

  state of mind; mentality; psychology

• 理想りそう
  N3

  ideal; ideals

• 理論りろん
  N1

  theory

• 整理せいり
  N4

  sorting; arrangement; organization; putting in order; adjustment; regulation

• 修理しゅうり
  N4

  repair; mending; fixing; servicing

• 物理ぶつり
  N3

  laws of nature; physical laws

• 総理そうり
  N1

  prime minister (as the head of a cabinet government); premier

• 代理だいり
  N2

  representation; agency; proxy

• 理事りじ
  N1

  director; trustee

• 理り

  reason; principle; logic

• 論理ろんり
  N1

  logic

• 生理せいり
  N1

  physiology

• 調理ちょうり
  N1

  cooking; food preparation

• 合理ごうり
  N2

  rationality

• 原理げんり
  N2

  principle; theory; fundamental truth

• 倫理りんり
  N1

  ethics; morals

• 推理すいり
  N1

  reasoning; inference; deduction

• 理念りねん
  N1

  (Platonic) ideal (of how things ought to be, e.g. human rights); foundational principle; idea; conception (e.g. of the university); doctrine; ideology

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