reason; principle

Builds 81 distinct compound words — ranked #46 of 100 for productivity.

音 on: リ

The underlying logic of a thing. 理由 a reason, 無理 impossible, 料理 cooking, 物理 physics.

The ten most common compounds built on 理. Tap any word that leads to another mapped character to follow it.

81compounds built

1,849times those words occur

#42by productivity alone

#73by how often it turns up

Where 理 leads

Other characters from the top 100 that share a word with 理. Each one opens its own map.

物thing物理学、物理#8 学study; learning物理学#15 無nothing; without無理#39

Words built on 理

理解りかい380 uses

料理りょうり279 uses

理由りゆう275 uses

修理しゅうり162 uses

理論りろん111 uses

無理むり82 uses

処理しょり59 uses

管理かんり31 uses

物理学22 uses

物理ぶつり22 uses

Counts from the Tanaka Corpus index via Tatoeba, 1,178,504 words of segmented Japanese. Tatoeba sentences are contributed by learners and teachers, so frequencies reflect textbook Japanese rather than a general corpus. Compound readings are generated — from the corpus where it records one, otherwise from a tokenizer — and are omitted rather than guessed where neither resolves the word. Character meanings and on/kun readings are written by hand.