理 (lǐ)
reason/logic/to manage/to tidy up
How 理 is written
- Strokes
- 11
- Radical
- 王 — jade
- Traditional
- 理
- Simplified
- 理 (unchanged)
Components
Common words using 理
- 心理 xīnlǐ
- mental; psychological
- 整理 zhěnglǐ
- to arrange; to tidy up; to sort out
- 理想 lǐxiǎng
- a dream; an ideal; perfection
- 理由 lǐyóu
- reason; grounds; justification
- 理解 lǐjiě
- to comprehend; to understand; comprehension
- 管理 guǎnlǐ
- to supervise; to manage; to administer
- 處理 chǔlǐ
- to handle; to treat; to deal with
- 護理 hùlǐ
- to nurse; to tend and protect
- 道理 dàoli
- reason; argument; sense
- 不理 bùlǐ
- to refuse to acknowledge; to pay no attention to; to take no notice of
- 代理 dàilǐ
- to act on behalf of sb in a responsible position; to act as an agent or proxy; surrogate
- 修理 xiūlǐ
- to repair; to perform maintenance; to overhaul
理 in a sentence
請把你的房間整理一下。
Qǐng bǎ nǐ de fángjiān zhěnglǐ yíxià.
“Please tidy up your room a bit.”
How common is 理?
理 is the 89th most frequent character in written Chinese. Characters up to this rank account for about 39.6% of all running text.
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