理事

Chinese

		to manage; to heed; to put in order to manage; to heed; to put in order; reason; logic; science; inner principle or structure	matter; thing; item matter; thing; item; work; affair
simp. and trad. (理事)		理	事
anagram		事理

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): lǐshì

  (Zhuyin): ㄌㄧˇ ㄕˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): lei⁵ si⁶ / lei⁵ si^6-2
• Hakka

  (Sixian, PFS): lî-sṳ

  (Hailu, HRS): li^ˋ sii^˖

• Eastern Min (BUC): lī-sê̤ṳ
• Puxian Min (Pouseng Ping'ing): li³ so⁵
• Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): lí-sīr / lí-sū

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: lǐshì
    • Zhuyin: ㄌㄧˇ ㄕˋ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: lǐshìh
    • Wade–Giles: li³-shih⁴
    • Yale: lǐ-shr̀
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: liishyh
    • Palladius: лиши (liši)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /li²¹⁴⁻²¹ ʂʐ̩⁵¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: lei⁵ si⁶ / lei⁵ si^6-2
    • Yale: léih sih / léih sí
    • Cantonese Pinyin: lei⁵ si⁶ / lei⁵ si^6-2
    • Guangdong Romanization: léi⁵ xi⁶ / léi⁵ xi^6-2
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /lei̯¹³ siː²²/, /lei̯¹³ siː²²⁻³⁵/
• Hakka
  • (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Neipu)
    • Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: lî-sṳ
    • Hakka Romanization System: li^ˊ sii
    • Hagfa Pinyim: li¹ si⁴
    • Sinological IPA: /li²⁴⁻¹¹ sɨ⁵⁵/
  • (Hailu, incl. Zhudong)
    • Hakka Romanization System: li^ˋ sii^˖
    • Sinological IPA: /li⁵³ sɨ³³/
• Eastern Min
  • (Fuzhou)
    • Bàng-uâ-cê: lī-sê̤ṳ
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /l̃i³³⁻⁵⁵ ^(s-)løy²⁴²/
• Puxian Min
  • (Putian)
    • Pouseng Ping'ing: li³ so⁵ [Phonetic: li² so⁵]
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /li⁴⁵³⁻¹³ ɬo²¹/
  • (Xianyou)
    • Pouseng Ping'ing: li³ so⁵ [Phonetic: li² so⁵]
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /li³³²⁻¹³ ɬɵ²¹/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien: Quanzhou)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: lí-sīr
    • Tâi-lô: lí-sīr
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /li⁵⁵⁴⁻²⁴ sɯ⁴¹/
  • (Hokkien: General Taiwanese, Xiamen, Zhangzhou)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: lí-sū
    • Tâi-lô: lí-sū
    • Phofsit Daibuun: lysu
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /li⁴¹⁻⁴⁴ su³³/
    • IPA (Taipei): /li⁵³⁻⁴⁴ su³³/
    • IPA (Xiamen, Zhangzhou): /li⁵³⁻⁴⁴ su²²/

Noun

理事

1. member of a council; director

Derived terms

• 理事國 / 理事国 (lǐshìguó)
• 理事會 / 理事会 (lǐshìhuì)

Verb

理事

1. (literary) to take care of matters; to attend to business

References

• 莆田市政协文化文史和学习委员会 [Culture, History and Learning Committee of Putian CPPCC], editor (2021), “理事”, in 莆仙方言大词典 [Comprehensive Dictionary of Puxian Dialect] (overall work in Mandarin and Puxian Min), Xiamen University Press, →ISBN, page 357.

Japanese

Kanji in this term
理	事
り Grade: 2	じ Grade: 3
on'yomi

Etymology

Literary Chinese 理事 (lǐshì, “to arrange matters”). The sense evolved into "director", as in "a person who arranges matters". Compare 執事 (shitsuji, “butler”, literally “to execute matters”), 判事 (hanji, “judge”, literally “to judge matters”).

Pronunciation

• (Tokyo) りじ [ríꜜjì] (Atamadaka – [1])^[1]
• IPA^(key): [ɾʲiʑi]

Noun

理(り)事(じ) • (riji) 

1. director
2. board of directors

Descendants

• → Chinese: 理事 (lǐshì)
• → Korean: 이사 (isa)
• → Vietnamese: lí sự

References

1. Hirayama, Teruo, editor (1960), 全国アクセント辞典 (Zenkoku Akusento Jiten, “Nationwide Accent Dictionary”) (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Tōkyōdō, →ISBN

Korean

Hanja in this term
理	事

Noun

理事 • (isa) (hangeul 이사)

1. hanja form^? of 이사 (“director of a company; trustee of a corporation”)

Vietnamese

chữ Hán Nôm in this term
理	事

Noun

理事

1. chữ Hán form of lí sự (“bad points or arguments based on poor or contrived reasoning”).

Verb

理事

1. chữ Hán form of lí sự (“to make bad points or arguments based on poor or contrived reasoning”).