理由

Chinese

		to manage; to heed; to put in order to manage; to heed; to put in order; reason; logic; science; inner principle or structure	follow; from; it is for...to follow; from; it is for...to; reason; cause; because of; due to; by; to; to leave it (to sb)
simp. and trad. (理由)		理	由

Etymology

Wasei kango (和製漢語), orthographically borrowed from Japanese 理(り)由(ゆう) (riyū).

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): lǐyóu

  (Zhuyin): ㄌㄧˇ ㄧㄡˊ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): lei⁵ jau⁴

• Hakka (Sixian, PFS): lî-yù
• Southern Min

  (Hokkien, POJ): lí-iû

  (Teochew, Peng'im): li² iu⁵

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: lǐyóu
    • Zhuyin: ㄌㄧˇ ㄧㄡˊ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: lǐyóu
    • Wade–Giles: li³-yu²
    • Yale: lǐ-yóu
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: liiyou
    • Palladius: лию (liju)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /li²¹⁴⁻²¹ joʊ̯³⁵/
      
  • (Standard Chinese, erhua-ed) (理由兒／理由儿)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: lǐyóur
    • Zhuyin: ㄌㄧˇ ㄧㄡˊㄦ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: lǐyóur
    • Wade–Giles: li³-yu²-ʼrh
    • Yale: lǐ-yóur
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: liiyoul
    • Palladius: лиюр (lijur)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /li²¹⁴⁻²¹ jɤʊ̯ɻʷ³⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: lei⁵ jau⁴
    • Yale: léih yàuh
    • Cantonese Pinyin: lei⁵ jau⁴
    • Guangdong Romanization: léi⁵ yeo⁴
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /lei̯¹³ jɐu̯²¹/
• Hakka
  • (Northern Sixian, incl. Miaoli)
    • Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: lî-yù
    • Hakka Romanization System: li´ iuˇ
    • Hagfa Pinyim: li¹ yiu²
    • Sinological IPA: /li²⁴ i̯u¹¹/
  • (Southern Sixian, incl. Meinong)
    • Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: lî-yù
    • Hakka Romanization System: li´ (r)iuˇ
    • Hagfa Pinyim: li¹ yiu²
    • Sinological IPA: /li²⁴ (j)i̯u¹¹/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: lí-iû
    • Tâi-lô: lí-iû
    • Phofsit Daibuun: lyiuu
    • IPA (Xiamen): /li⁵³⁻⁴⁴ iu²⁴/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /li⁵⁵⁴⁻²⁴ iu²⁴/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /li⁵³⁻⁴⁴ iu¹³/
    • IPA (Taipei): /li⁵³⁻⁴⁴ iu²⁴/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /li⁴¹⁻⁴⁴ iu²³/
  • (Teochew)
    • Peng'im: li² iu⁵
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: lí iû
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /li⁵²⁻³⁵ iu⁵⁵/

Noun

理由

1. reason; grounds; justification

Synonyms

• 來由／来由 (láiyóu)
• 原因 (yuányīn)
• 因由 (yīnyóu)
• 因端 (Hokkien)
• 因致端 (Hokkien)
• 基因 (jīyīn) (dated)
• 張本／张本 (zhāngběn) (literary)
• 成因 (chéngyīn)
• 所以然 (suǒyǐrán)
• 根由 (gēnyóu)
• 緣故／缘故 (yuángù)
• 緣由／缘由 (yuányóu)
• 緣起／缘起 (yuánqǐ)
• 肇因 (zhàoyīn)
• 言因 (Anxi Hokkien)
• 起因 (qǐyīn)
• 道理 (dàolǐ)
• 關係／关系

 

Japanese

Etymology 1

Kanji in this term
理	由
り Grade: 2	ゆう Grade: 3
on’yomi

Pronunciation

• (Tokyo) りゆう [rìyúú] (Heiban – [0])
• IPA^(key): [ɾʲijɯ̟ᵝː]

Noun

理(り)由(ゆう) • (riyū) ^{←りいう (riiu)?}

1. a reason
   • 2016 April 23, “弱(じゃく)者(しゃ)の消(しょう)耗(もう) [Consume the Meek]”, in エルドラージ覚醒 [Eldrazi Awakening], Wizards of the Coast:

     「それはなぜ破(は)壊(かい)するのかだと？それがそうするからだ。理(り)由(ゆう)を語(かた)るなど時(じ)間(かん)と呼(こ)吸(きゅう)の無(む)駄(だ)だ。」

     “Sore wa naze hakaisuru no ka da to? Sore ga sō suru kara da. Riyū o kataru nado jikan to kokyū no muda da.”

     “Why does it destroy? It does, and to talk of reasons wastes time and breath.”

2. a motive

See also

• 原(げん)因(いん) (gen'in, “cause”)

Etymology 2

Kanji in this term
理	由
わけ
Grade: 2	Grade: 3
jukujikun

For pronunciation and definitions of 理由 – see the following entry.

【わけ】 [noun] 訳, 理由: reason (for), cause Alternative spelling 訳

(This term, 理由, is an alternative spelling of the above term.)

Korean

Hanja in this term
理	由

Noun

理由 • (iyu) (hangeul 이유)

1. Hanja form^? of 이유 (“(South Korea) reason”).

Noun

理由 • (riyu) (hangeul 리유)

1. Hanja form^? of 리유 (“(North Korea) reason”).

Vietnamese

chữ Hán Nôm in this term
理	由

Noun

理由

1. chữ Hán form of lí do/lý do (“reason; cause; excuse; justification”).