理
texture; grain (of wood); inner essence; intrinsic order; reason; logic; truth; science; natural science (esp. physics); to manage; to pay attention to; to run (affairs); to handle; to put in order; to tidy up
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Dict coverage rank #74 U+7406
How 理 is formed
Phono-semantic compound (形声字)
王 (semantic, “king”) + 里 (phonetic, lǐ)
How to remember it
logic · Heisig RSH #276
jewel + computer
Keyword method from Heisig's Remembering Simplified Hanzi.
Phonetic series: characters sharing the sound component 里
Siblings built with the same phonetic component 里 (lǐ) — compare how they read:
| Character | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 里 sound component | lǐ | unit of distance equal to 0.5km; village; lane |
| 埋 | mái | to bury; to conceal; to plant |
| 厘 | lí | one thousandth |
| 狸 | lí | fox |
| 哩 | li | mile |
| 鲤 | lǐ | carp |
| 俚 | lǐ | rustic, vulgar, unpolished; mean |
| 悝 | kuī | to laugh at; to pity; sad; afflicted |
| 陧 | niè | chaos, disorder |
| 锂 | lǐ | lithium |
| 娌 | lǐ | brother's wife |
Words containing 理
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 大理市 | Dà lǐ Shì | Dali, a county-level city in Dali Bai Autonomous Prefecture 大理白族自治州[Da4 li3 Bai2 zu2 Zi4 z… |
| 地理学家 | dì lǐ xué jiā | geographer |
| 心理学家 | xīn lǐ xué jiā | psychologist |
| 生理学家 | shēng lǐ xué jiā | physiologist |
| 人文地理学 | rén wén dì lǐ xué | human geography |
| 心理学 | xīn lǐ xué | psychology |
| 地理学 | dì lǐ xué | geography |
| 生理学 | shēng lǐ xué | physiology |
| 不理 | bù lǐ | to refuse to acknowledge; to pay no attention to; to take no notice of; to ignore |
| 大理花 | dà lǐ huā | dahlia (loanword) |
| 理学家 | lǐ xué jiā | scholar of the rationalist school of Neo-Confucianism 理學|理学[Li3 xue2] |
| 大理 | Dà lǐ | see 大理白族自治州[Da4 li3 Bai2 zu2 Zi4 zhi4 zhou1]; see 大理市[Da4 li3 Shi4] |
| 大理 | dà lǐ | judicial officer; justice of the peace (old) |
| 生理性 | shēng lǐ xìng | physiological |
| 理县 | Lǐ Xiàn | Li County or Lixian, a county in Ngawa Tibetan and Qiang Autonomous Prefecture 阿壩藏族羌族自治州|阿… |
| 会理市 | Huì lǐ Shì | Huili, a county-level city in Liangshan Yi Autonomous Prefecture 涼山彝族自治州|凉山彝族自治州[Liang2 sh… |
| 天体物理学家 | tiān tǐ wù lǐ xué jiā | astrophysicist |
| 理头 | lǐ tóu | to have a haircut; to cut sb's hair |
| 理工大学 | lǐ gōng dà xué | University of Science and Engineering; also sometimes Institute of Technology |
| 天体物理学 | tiān tǐ wù lǐ xué | astrophysics |