reason

Original meaning: 

cut jade

Phonosemantic compound. 𤣩 represents the meaning and represents the sound.

Components
𤣩 meaning component

𤣩  Meaning component

  

jade

𤣩 is a component form of .

里 sound component

  Sound component

  

village

Evolution

理 Bronze script Late Western Zhou (~800 BC)

Bronze script

Late Western Zhou (~800 BC)
理 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
理 Clerical script Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)

Clerical script

Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)
理 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

 

reason, logic; manage; 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

Most common words with 理
Freq.
Word
Meaning

管理

to supervise

处理

to handle

理解

to comprehend

理由

reason

心理

mental

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*m(ə).rəʔ

liX

cut jade; regulate

*m(ə).rəʔ

liX

reason; principle


Statistics

HSK level 6

Appears in 95.4669% of movies

200th most common character in movies

89th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

11

Unicode

U+7406

Shuowen

“理,治玉也。从玉,里聲。”


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