天理

Chinese

		day; sky; heaven	to manage; to heed; to put in order to manage; to heed; to put in order; reason; logic; science; inner principle or structure
simp. and trad. (天理)		天	理

Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Pinyin): tiānlǐ

(Zhuyin): ㄊㄧㄢㄌㄧˇ
Cantonese (Jyutping): tin¹ lei⁵
Hakka
(Sixian, PFS): thiên-lî

(Meixian, Guangdong): tiên¹ li¹
Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): thian-lí / thiⁿ-lí

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: tiānlǐ
  - Zhuyin: ㄊㄧㄢㄌㄧˇ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: tianlǐ
  - Wade–Giles: tʻien¹-li³
  - Yale: tyān-lǐ
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: tianlii
  - Palladius: тяньли (tjanʹli)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /tʰi̯ɛn⁵⁵ li²¹⁴⁻²¹⁽⁴⁾/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
  - Jyutping: tin¹ lei⁵
  - Yale: tīn léih
  - Cantonese Pinyin: tin¹ lei⁵
  - Guangdong Romanization: tin¹ léi⁵
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /tʰiːn⁵⁵ lei̯¹³/
Hakka
- (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Neipu)
  - Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: thiên-lî
  - Hakka Romanization System: tien^ˊ li^ˊ
  - Hagfa Pinyim: tian¹ li¹
  - Sinological IPA: /tʰi̯en²⁴⁻¹¹ li²⁴/
- (Meixian)
  - Guangdong: tiên¹ li¹
  - Sinological IPA: /tʰiɛn⁴⁴ li⁴⁴/
Southern Min
- (Hokkien: Quanzhou, General Taiwanese, Xiamen, Zhangzhou)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: thian-lí
  - Tâi-lô: thian-lí
  - Phofsit Daibuun: tienlie
  - IPA (Taipei): /tʰiɛn⁴⁴⁻³³ li⁵³/
  - IPA (Quanzhou): /tʰiɛn³³ li⁵⁵⁴/
  - IPA (Xiamen, Zhangzhou): /tʰiɛn⁴⁴⁻²² li⁵³/
  - IPA (Kaohsiung): /tʰiɛn⁴⁴⁻³³ li⁴¹/
- (Hokkien: General Taiwanese, Xiamen, Longyan)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: thiⁿ-lí
  - Tâi-lô: thinn-lí
  - Phofsit Daibuun: tvilie
  - IPA (Xiamen): /tʰĩ⁴⁴⁻²² li⁵³/
  - IPA (Taipei): /tʰĩ⁴⁴⁻³³ li⁵³/
  - IPA (Longyan): /tʰĩ³³⁴ li²¹/
  - IPA (Kaohsiung): /tʰĩ⁴⁴⁻³³ li⁴¹/

Noun

天理

rules of nature; laws of nature; natural law
(in common usage) justice; fairness
(Chinese philosophy) heavenly principle

Synonyms

(justice): 公道 (gōngdào)

Derived terms

不傷天理 / 不伤天理
天理不容 (tiānlǐbùróng)
天理人情
天理報應 / 天理报应
天理循環 / 天理循环
天理教 (Tiānlǐjiào)
天理昭彰
天理昭昭
天理昭然
天理良心
天理難容 / 天理难容 (tiānlǐnánróng)
沒天理的 / 没天理的

Descendants

Sino-Xenic (天理):

→ Japanese: 天(てん)理(り) (tenri)
→ Korean: 천리(天理) (cheolli)
→ Vietnamese: thiên lí (天理)

Proper noun

天理

(～市) Tenri (a city in Nara Prefecture, Japan)

Japanese

Kanji in this term
天	理
てん Grade: 1	り Grade: 2
on'yomi

Pronunciation

(Tokyo) てんり [téꜜǹrì] (Atamadaka – [1])^[1]
IPA^(key): [tẽ̞n̺ɾʲi]

Noun

天(てん)理(り) • (tenri)

laws of nature, natural laws

Proper noun

天(てん)理(り) • (Tenri)

Tenri (a city in Nara Prefecture, Japan)

References

^ Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 [Daijirin] (in Japanese), Third edition, Tokyo: Sanseidō, →ISBN

Korean

Hanja in this term
天	理

Noun

天理 • (cheolli) (hangeul 천리)

hanja form^? of 천리

Vietnamese

chữ Hán Nôm in this term
天	理

Noun

天理

chữ Hán form of thiên lí (“rules of nature; laws of nature; natural law”)

[DJR-1] Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 [Daijirin] (in Japanese), Third edition, Tokyo: Sanseidō, →ISBN

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