理

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理 U+7406, 理
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-7406
← 琅
[U+7405] 		CJK Unified Ideographs 琇 →
[U+7407]

Translingual[edit]

Stroke order
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Han character[edit]

理 (radical 96, 玉+7, 11 strokes, cangjie input 一土田土 (MGWG), four-corner 16114, composition ⿰王里)

References[edit]

  • KangXi: page 733, character 4
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 21014
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1145, character 1
  • Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 2, page 1115, character 13
  • Unihan data for U+7406

Chinese[edit]

simp. and trad.
 理

Glyph origin[edit]

Characters in the same phonetic series (里) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
埋 *mrɯː
霾 *mrɯː
薶 *mrɯː
榸 *ʔr'ɯː
厘 *rɯ
狸 *rɯ
貍 *p·rɯ
梩 *rɯ
艃 *rɯ
里 *rɯʔ
理 *rɯʔ
鯉 *rɯʔ
俚 *rɯʔ
悝 *rɯʔ, *km̥ʰlɯː
娌 *rɯʔ
裏 *rɯʔ
荲 *r̥ʰɯɡ, *l̥ʰuɡ, *hluɡ

Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *rɯʔ): semantic 玉 (“jade”) + phonetic 里 (OC *rɯʔ).

According to Shuowen Jiezi, the character meant “to polish jade”. The current meaning “to order, tidy up” may be derived from it.

Etymology[edit]

"to cut jade, to mark out (field boundaries)"
From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *b-rəj (“draw, mark, boundary”) (STEDT; Schuessler, 2007); cognate with Apatani a-rí (“boundary”), Mizo ri (“boundary, frontier, border”), Drung bri (“to write”), Mru pri (“to scratch”), Tibetan འབྲི ('bri, “to write”), Burmese ရေး (re:, “to write”) & စာရေး (care:, “to write, clerk”). Schuessler glossed its fundamental meaning as "cut in a regular way, divide into equal sections".
"to regulate"
STEDT groups this sense "to cut jade, to mark out (field boundaries)"; Schuessler (2007) noted that 理 "to regulate" was often thought to be the same word as 理 "to divide into sections", as the former sense might be derived from the latter.
"to administer"
Probably related to 釐 (lí, “to regulate”) (Schuessler, 2007)
"envoy, jail official, matchmaker"
Related to 吏 (lì, “official”), 史 (shǐ, “scribe, historian”), and 使 (shì, “ambassador”)
Possibly the same word as 理 "to administer".
According to Schuessler (2007), from Austroasiatic; compare Old Khmer re (“to move, change position”) & its derivatives Old Khmer pre (“to send, order, assign, appoint, delegate, use, employ, make”), in turn related to paṃre (“to serve; service, duty; servant, delegate, representative, minister”); with Sino-Tibetan causative *s- corresponding to Khmer causative *p-..

Pronunciation[edit]

Rime
Character 理
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 來 (37)
Final (韻) 之 (19)
Tone (調) Rising (X)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) III
Fanqie 良士切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang 		/lɨX/
Pan
Wuyun 		/lɨX/
Shao
Rongfen 		/lieX/
Edwin
Pulleyblank 		/lɨX/
Li
Rong 		/liəX/
Wang
Li 		/lĭəX/
Bernard
Karlgren 		/liX/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex 		lǐ
Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 理 理
Reading # 1/2 2/2
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin) 		lǐ lǐ
Middle
Chinese 		‹ liX › ‹ liX ›
Old
Chinese 		/*m(ə).rəʔ/ /*m(ə).rəʔ/
English cut jade; regulate reason; principle

Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter–Sagart system:

* Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence;
* Square brackets "[]" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. *[t] as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p;
* Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix;
* Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary;

* Period "." indicates syllable boundary.
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character 理
Reading # 1/1
No. 7827
Phonetic
component 		里
Rime
group 		之
Rime
subdivision 		0
Corresponding
MC rime 		里
Old
Chinese 		/*rɯʔ/

Definitions[edit]

理

  1. † to polish jade
  2. to put in order; to tidy up
  3. to manage; to run; to handle
  4. (usually in negative) to pay attention to; to care about
    他們不理我。 / 他们不理我。  ―  Tāmen bù lǐ wǒ.  ―  They are ignoring me.
    佢連自己個仔都唔理。 [Cantonese, trad.]
    佢连自己个仔都唔理。 [Cantonese, simp.]
    Keoi5 lin4 zi6 gei2 go3 zai2 dou1 m4 lei5. [Jyutping]
    He doesn't care about even his own son.
  5. to repair and maintain; to prune
  6. to revise; to review
  7. texture; grain (of wood)
    肌理  ―  jīlǐ  ―  skin texture
  8. principle; inner essence
  9. reason; logic; truth; science
    道理  ―  dàolǐ  ―  reasoning
    心理  ―  xīnlǐ  ―  psychology
  10. natural science
  11. A surname​.
  12. † envoy; jail-official; matchmaker

Synonyms[edit]

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  • (to repair and maintain): 修整 (xiūzhěng)
  • (texture): 紋路／纹路 (wénlù)
  • (inner essence):
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Synonyms of 理

Compounds[edit]

Derived terms from 理

Japanese[edit]

Kanji[edit]

理

(grade 2 “Kyōiku” kanji)

Readings[edit]

Compounds[edit]

Etymology 1[edit]

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

Noun[edit]

理(り) • (ri) 

  1. reason, logic

Etymology 2[edit]

Kanji in this term
理
おさ(む)
Grade: 2
kun’yomi

Proper noun[edit]

理(おさむ) • (Osamu) 

  1. A male given name

Korean[edit]

Hanja[edit]

理 • (ri>i) (hangeul 리>이)

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Vietnamese[edit]

Han character[edit]

理 (lí, lẽ, nhẽ)

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References[edit]

  • Thiều Chửu : Hán Việt Tự Điển Hà Nội 1942
  • Trần Văn Chánh: Từ Điển Hán Việt NXB Trẻ, Ho Chi Minh Ville, 1999
  • Vũ Văn Kính: Đại Tự Điển Chữ Nôm, NXB Văn Nghệ, Ho Chi Minh Ville
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