情理

Chinese

		feeling; emotion; passion feeling; emotion; passion; situation	to manage; to heed; to put in order to manage; to heed; to put in order; reason; logic; science; inner principle or structure
trad. (情理)		情	理
simp. #(情理)		情	理

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): qínglǐ

  (Zhuyin): ㄑㄧㄥˊ ㄌㄧˇ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): cing⁴ lei⁵

• Hakka (Sixian, PFS): chhìn-lî
• Southern Min

  (Hokkien, POJ): chêng-lí

  (Teochew, Peng'im): cêng⁵ li²

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: qínglǐ
    • Zhuyin: ㄑㄧㄥˊ ㄌㄧˇ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: cínglǐ
    • Wade–Giles: chʻing²-li³
    • Yale: chíng-lǐ
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: chynglii
    • Palladius: цинли (cinli)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡ɕʰiŋ³⁵ li²¹⁴⁻²¹⁽⁴⁾/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: cing⁴ lei⁵
    • Yale: chìhng léih
    • Cantonese Pinyin: tsing⁴ lei⁵
    • Guangdong Romanization: qing⁴ léi⁵
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡sʰɪŋ²¹ lei̯¹³/
• Hakka
  • (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Neipu)
    • Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: chhìn-lî
    • Hakka Romanization System: qin^ˇ li^ˊ
    • Hagfa Pinyim: qin² li¹
    • Sinological IPA: /t͡sʰin¹¹ li²⁴/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: chêng-lí
    • Tâi-lô: tsîng-lí
    • Phofsit Daibuun: zenglie
    • IPA (Xiamen): /t͡siɪŋ²⁴⁻²² li⁵³/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /t͡siɪŋ²⁴⁻²² li⁵⁵⁴/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /t͡siɪŋ¹³⁻²² li⁵³/
    • IPA (Taipei): /t͡siɪŋ²⁴⁻¹¹ li⁵³/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /t͡siɪŋ²³⁻³³ li⁴¹/
  • (Teochew)
    • Peng'im: cêng⁵ li²
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: tshêng lí
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡sʰeŋ⁵⁵⁻¹¹ li⁵²/

Noun

情理

1. reason; sense

   合乎情理  ―  héhū qínglǐ  ―  to be reasonable; to make sense

   不合情理  ―  bùhé qínglǐ  ―  to be unreasonable; to not make sense

Synonyms

• (Hokkien) 字眼

Derived terms

• 不講情理／不讲情理
• 不近情理
• 情理難容／情理难容

 

Related terms

• 道理 (dàolǐ)
• 原理 (yuánlǐ)
• 真諦／真谛 (zhēndì)
• 真理 (zhēnlǐ)

Japanese

Kanji in this term
情	理
じょう Grade: 5	り Grade: 2
goon

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [d͡ʑo̞ːɾʲi]

Noun

情(じょう)理(り) • (jōri) 

1. both emotion and reason

   情理(じょうり)を尽(つ)くして説(と)く

   jōri o tsukushite toku

   appeal to the heart and the head