道理
Simplified/traditional word
道理 English definition
dào lǐ
- reason
- argument
- sense
- principle
- basis
- justification
- CL:个
dào lǐ
- reason
- argument
- sense
- principle
- basis
- justification
- CL:个
HSK level
Characters
- 道 (dào): direction; way; road; path; CL:條|条[tiao2],股[gu3]; principle; truth; morality; reason; skill; method; Dao (of Daoism); to say; to speak; to talk; classifier for long thin things (rivers, cracks etc), barriers (walls, doors etc), questions (in an exam etc), commands, courses in a meal, steps in a process; province (of Korea or Japan);
- 理 (lǐ): texture; grain (of wood); inner essence; intrinsic order; reason; logic; truth; science; natural science (esp. physics); to manage; to pay attention to; to run (affairs); to handle; to put in order; to tidy up;