理
り ことわり
- reason; principle; logic n
- general principle (as opposed to individual concrete phenomenon) n Buddh
- (in neo-Confucianism) the underlying principles of the cosmos n
- reason; logic; sense; natural way of things n
Kanji
理
リ
ことわり
logic; arrangement; reason; justice; truth
Synonyms
事
こと こん じ ごと
- thing; matter n uk
- incident; occurrence; event; something serious; trouble; crisis n uk
- circumstances; situation; state of affairs n uk
- work; business; affair n uk
- after an inflectable word, creates a noun phrase indicating something the speaker does not feel close to n uk
- nominalizing suffix n-suf uk
- pretending to ...; playing make-believe ... n-suf uk
- alias; also known as; otherwise known as; or n uk
- necessity; need n uk
- you should ...; I advise that you ...; it's important to ... n uk
- individual concrete phenomenon (as opposed to a general principle) n Buddh
- nominalizing suffix suf
- pretending to ...; playing make-believe ... suf