理
Meanings
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- 1.texture
- 2.grain (of wood)
- 3.inner essence
- 4.intrinsic order
- 5.reason
- 6.logic
- 7.truth
- 8.science
- 9.natural science (esp. physics)
- 10.to manage
- 11.to pay attention to
- 12.to run (affairs)
- 13.to handle
- 14.to put in order
- 15.to tidy up
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Wiktionary
- 1.to cut and polish jade
- 2.to put in order; to tidy up
- 3.to manage; to run; to handle
- 4.to pay attention to; to care about
- 5.to concern oneself with; to interfere with
- 6.texture; grain (of wood)
- 7.reason; logic; truth; science
- 8.natural science
- 9.a surname
- 10.envoy; jail-official; matchmaker
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Etymology
Phono-semantic compound (形聲 /形声, 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. ;"to cut jade, to mark out (field boundaries)" ;"to regulate" ;"to administer" ;"envoy, jail official, matchmaker" :Possibly the same word as 理 (lǐ) "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-..
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Stroke order
Components
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Example sentences
我處理了。
I handled it.
讓我來處理。
Let me handle this.
你想怎麼處理？
How do you want this handled?
千萬別理湯姆。
Don't pay any attention to Tom.
我的理論是這樣。
That's my theory.
我們明天處理它。
We'll deal with it tomorrow.
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