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理 — reason, logic, principle

り理 reason

Grade 2 Japanese school grade level in which this kanji is taught. Grade 1 is first year of elementary school. 11 strokes mind abstract

U+7406 Unicode hex codepoint — a unique identifier for this character in the Unicode standard. Freq #86 Frequency rank among the ~2,500 most common kanji in Japanese newspapers. Lower number = more common. Heisig #261 Index in James Heisig's "Remembering the Kanji" — a popular textbook that teaches kanji through mnemonics and stories.

Meanings

reason
logic
principle

word

り ri On'yomi On'yomi (音読み) — the Sino-Japanese reading, derived from Chinese pronunciation. Most commonly used in compound words (jukugo).

管(かん) 理(り) kanri management 心(しん) 理(り) shinri psychology 合(ごう) 理(り) gouri rational 原(げん) 理(り) genri principle 理(り) ri reason 地(ち) 理(り) chiri geography 生(せい) 理(り) seiri physiology 理(り) 科(か) rika science (subject)

Stroke order

Stroke data from KanjiVG (CC BY-SA 3.0)

Components

Composed of

おう王 king

さと里 village #166

Phono-semantic compound (形声). 王 (jade radical) gives the meaning — veins in jade. 里 (ri) provides the sound. Reason and logic — the natural grain running through things.

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Kangxi Radical The Kangxi radicals are a set of 214 character components standardized in the 1716 Kangxi Dictionary. Every kanji is classified under one radical, used for dictionary lookup and character organization.

#96 玉 jade