理 lǐ
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noun
reason / logic / truth
Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
Notes: As in 合理 'reasonable' (ABC 'lǐ' 理 bf 2; NCCED '理' 6) -
verb
to manage
Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
Notes: In the sense of 管理 (ABC 'lǐ' 理 bf 5; NCCED '理' 2) -
verb
to pay attention to / to take notice of / to regard others with a certain attitude
Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
Notes: (NCCED '理' 3) -
verb
to work jade / to remove jade from ore
Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
Notes: Etymology: 理：治玉也。(Shuo Wen; NCCED '理' 1) -
bound form
a natural science
Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语 , Subdomain: Science 科学
Notes: As in 物理 'physics' (ABC 'lǐ' 理 bf 3; NCCED '理' 7) -
noun
law / principle / theory / inner principle or structure
Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语
Notes: As in 道理 (ABC 'lǐ' 理 bf 4) -
verb
to acknowledge / to respond / to answer
Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
Notes: 理 is synonymous with 答理 in this sense (ABC 'lǐ' 理 v2). -
noun
a judge
Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
Notes: 理 is synonymous with 法官 in this sense. -
noun
li / moral principle
Domain: History 历史 , Subdomain: Confucianism 儒家
Notes: A concept in Neo-Confucian thought (Yao, 2000, p. 148) -
verb
to tidy up / to put in order
Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
Notes: (ABC 'lǐ' 理 v 1; NCCED '理' 4) -
noun
grain / texture
Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
Notes: in wood, as in 纹理 (ABC 'lǐ' 理 bf 1; NCCED '理' 5) -
noun
reason / logic / truth
Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
Notes: Z variant of 理 (Unihan '理')
Contained in
- 置之不理 to pay no heed to
- 理智 reason / intellect / rationality
- 地理学(地理學) geography
- 管理员(管理員) manager / administrator
- 物理 physics ; the basic qualities of things
- 管理 to supervise / to manage / to administer ; management / administration
- 处理(處理) to handle / to treat / to deal with / to process
- 地理 geography ; geography ; a place
- 理论(理論) theory
- 副总理(副總理) vice-premier
- 审理(審理) to hear (a case) / to try (a case)
- 经理(經理) manager / director ; to manage
- 理念 idea / concept / philosophy / theory
- 处理器(處理器) microprocessor
- 理财(理財) personal finance / financial management
- 治理 to manage / to administer ; to govern / to control
- 国有资产监督管理委员会(國有資產監督管理委員會) State-Owned Assets Supervision and Administration
- 代理 agent / a surrogate ; to act for
- 合理 rational / reasonable / fair
- 清理 to put in order / to check up ; to pacify ; to be clear
- 理由 reason / grounds / justification
- 原理 principle / theory
- 总理(總理) premier / prime minister
- 总经理(總經理) general manager
- 料理 cuisine ; to arrange / to handle ; to take care of ; o persecute / to torture
- 助理 assistant ; to assist
- 条理(條理) to arrange / to order / to tidy up
- 调理(調理) to nurse one's health / to recuperate / to take care of ; to nurse one's health / to recuperate / to take care of ; to teach / to train ; to mediate / to reconcile ; to cook
- 理想 an ideal ; satisfying / fulfilling
- 理解 to comprehend / to understand ; understanding / comprehension
- 道理 a principle ; reason / grounds / justification ; a plan for handling something ; a moral principle
- 办理(辦理) to handle / to transact / to conduct
- 心理 mental / psychological ; mind and reason
- 情理 reason / sense
- 理发(理髮) to get a haircut
- 修理 to repair / to maintain / to overhaul / to fix
- 真理 truth
- 整理 to arrange / to tidy up
- 生理 physiology
- 大理石 marble
- 定理 theorem ; an established theory
- 邮件管理员(郵件管理員) postmaster
Also contained in
中央处理器 、 信息管理 、 客户关系管理 、 数字版权管理 、 数字信号处理器 、 数位讯号处理器 、 数字信号处理技术 、 地理信息系统 、 个人数字助理
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- 卷二十九 志第十九 符瑞下 Volume 29 Treatises 19: Auspicious Signs 3 Book of Song 《宋書》 — count: 117
- 卷112下 靈徵志八下 Volume 112b Treatise 8: The Spiritual World 2 Book of Wei 《魏書》 — count: 90
- 卷七十三 志第四十九 職官二 Volume 73 Treatises 49: Official Posts 2 History of Ming 《明史》 — count: 54
- 卷一百六十九 志第一百二十二 職官九 Volume 169 Treatises 122: Offical Posts 9 History of Song 《宋史》 — count: 46
- 卷四十 志第二十: 地理三 Volume 40 Treatises 20: Geography 3 Old Book of Tang 《舊唐書》 — count: 39
- 卷一百三十 列傳第十七: 徹里 不忽木 完澤 阿魯渾薩理 Volume 130 Biographies 17: Cheli, Buhumu, Wanze, Aluhunsali History of Yuan 《元史》 — count: 32
- 卷六十三 列傳第五十一: 周惠達 馮景 蘇綽 Volume 63 Biographies 51: Zhou Huida, Feng Jing, Su Chao History of the Northern Dynasties 《北史》 — count: 31
- 卷二百八十二 列傳第一百七十 儒林一 Volume 282 Biographies 170: Confucian Scholars 1 History of Ming 《明史》 — count: 30
- 卷三十八 志第十八: 地理一 Volume 38 Treatises 18: Geography 1 Old Book of Tang 《舊唐書》 — count: 28
- 卷一百六十三 志第一百十六 職官三 Volume 163 Treatises 116: Offical Posts 3 History of Song 《宋史》 — count: 27
Collocations
- 循理 (循理) 九竅循理 — Guanzi 《管子》, 心術上第三十六 Chapter 36: Scheming I — count: 8
- 理义 (理義) 故理義之悅我心 — Mencius 《孟子》, 告子上 Gaozi I — count: 7
- 行理 (行理) 行理之命 — The Commentary of Zuo on the Spring and Autumn Annals 《春秋左氏傳》, 昭公 Lord Zhao — count: 5
- 不可理 (不可理) 則事不可理也 — Guanzi 《管子》, 乘馬第五 Chapter 5: A Team of Horses — count: 4
- 疆理 (疆理) 疆理天下 — The Book of Songs 《詩經》, 小雅‧谷風之什‧信南山 Minor odes of the kingdom - Gu Feng Zhi Shen - Xin Nan Shan — count: 3
- 理好 (理好) 理好憎之情 — Huainanzi 《淮南子》, 卷十三 氾論訓 Chapter 13: Overflowing Discussions — count: 3
- 理天下 (理天下) 疆理天下 — The Book of Songs 《詩經》, 小雅‧谷風之什‧信南山 Minor odes of the kingdom - Gu Feng Zhi Shen - Xin Nan Shan — count: 3
- 胜理 (勝理) 不可勝理 — Huainanzi 《淮南子》, 卷十四 詮言訓 Chapter 14: Explanation of Sayings — count: 2
- 理不上 (理不上) 則理不上通 — Guanzi 《管子》, 權修第三 Chapter 3: Cultivating Authority — count: 2
- 尽理 (儘理) 則治不盡理 — Guanzi 《管子》, 版法解第六十六 Chapter 66: Ban Fa Jie — count: 2