理
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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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- Old HSK
- Level 3
- Strokes
- 11
- Radical
- 玉 +7
- Structure
- Left–right 左右
- Traditional
- 理
- Common rank
- #74
- Unicode
- U+7406
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Formation & memory
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Words with 理
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| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 大理市 | 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 | geographer | |
| 心理学家 | psychologist | |
| 生理学家 | physiologist | |
| 人文地理学 | human geography | |
| 心理学 | psychology | |
| 地理学 | geography | |
| 生理学 | physiology | |
| 不理 | to refuse to acknowledge; to pay no attention to; to take no notice of; to ignore | |
| 大理花 | dahlia (loanword) | |
| 理学家 | scholar of the rationalist school of Neo-Confucianism 理學|理学[Li3 xue2] | |
| 大理 | see 大理白族自治州[Da4 li3 Bai2 zu2 Zi4 zhi4 zhou1]; see 大理市[Da4 li3 Shi4] | |
| 大理 | judicial officer; justice of the peace (old) | |
| 生理性 | physiological | |
| 理县 | 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 | 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 | astrophysicist | |
| 理头 | to have a haircut; to cut sb's hair | |
| 理工大学 | University of Science and Engineering; also sometimes Institute of Technology | |
| 天体物理学 | astrophysics |
Sound family
Characters sharing the sound component 里 — compare how they read.