IDENTITY
理lǐreason; principle; to manage
HSK 2Top 120
CORE MEANING
reason; principle; to manage
- Part of speech
- noun
- Register
- neutral
Senses
- 1.reason; principleHSK2
- 2.to manageHSK3
FORM & BREAKDOWN
- Radical
- 王jade radical (wáng)
- strokes
- 11
- Structure
- left-right compound
- IDS sequence
- ⿰王里
- jade (cutting it)
- gives the sound lǐ
USAGE
Common words
道理dàolǐreason
经理jīnglǐmanager
理想lǐxiǎngideal
Graded examples
他说得很有道理。Tā shuō de hěn yǒu dàolǐ.HSK3
He speaks very reasonably.
RELATIONS
Lookalike — don’t mix up
- 埋
LEARNING
Memory aid
Working jade (王) along its grain (里) — the inner pattern, the principle.
- HSK version
- 3.0
- Frequency rank
- #120
- Memory aid
- memory-aid
TRUST & SOURCES
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- AI-assisted editorial review
- Last reviewed
- 2026-08-15
Sources
- CC-CEDICT 2026-01-01
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