理屈

Chinese

		to manage; to heed; to put in order to manage; to heed; to put in order; reason; logic; science; inner principle or structure	bent; feel wronged
simp. and trad. (理屈)		理	屈

Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Pinyin): lǐqū

(Zhuyin): ㄌㄧˇ ㄑㄩ
Cantonese (Jyutping): lei⁵ wat¹
Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): lí-khut

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: lǐqū
  - Zhuyin: ㄌㄧˇ ㄑㄩ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: lǐcyu
  - Wade–Giles: li³-chʻü¹
  - Yale: lǐ-chyū
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: liichiu
  - Palladius: лицюй (licjuj)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /li²¹⁴⁻²¹ t͡ɕʰy⁵⁵/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
  - Jyutping: lei⁵ wat¹
  - Yale: léih wāt
  - Cantonese Pinyin: lei⁵ wat⁷
  - Guangdong Romanization: léi⁵ wed¹
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /lei̯¹³ wɐt̚⁵/
Southern Min
- (Hokkien)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: lí-khut
  - Tâi-lô: lí-khut
  - Phofsit Daibuun: ly'qud
  - IPA (Xiamen): /li⁵³⁻⁴⁴ kʰut̚³²/
  - IPA (Quanzhou): /li⁵⁵⁴⁻²⁴ kʰut̚⁵/
  - IPA (Zhangzhou): /li⁵³⁻⁴⁴ kʰut̚³²/
  - IPA (Taipei): /li⁵³⁻⁴⁴ kʰut̚³²/
  - IPA (Kaohsiung): /li⁴¹⁻⁴⁴ kʰut̚³²/

Verb

理屈

to be in the wrong

Synonyms

理虧／理亏 (lǐkuī)
(Teochew) 落短, 落理

Antonyms

理直 (lǐzhí)

Japanese

Kanji in this term
理	屈
り Grade: 2	くつ Grade: S
on'yomi	kan'on

Alternative spelling
理窟 (dated)

Etymology

屈 is a daiyōji replacing 窟.

Originally from Chapter 4. Letters and Scholarship, A New Account of the Tales of the World by Liu Yiqing (南朝宋，劉義慶，《世說新語·文學》).^[1]

Pronunciation

(Tokyo) りくつ [rìkútsú] (Heiban – [0])^[2]^[3]^[4]
IPA^(key): [ɾʲikɯ̟̊t͡sɨ]

Noun

理(り)屈(くつ) • (rikutsu)

logic; reasoning
理(り)屈(くつ)に合(あ)わない。
Rikutsu ni awanai.
It does not make sense.

Derived terms

理(り)屈(くつ)責(ぜ)め (rikutsuzeme)
理(り)屈(くつ)詰(づ)め (rikutsuzume)
理(り)屈(くつ)屋(や) (rikutsuya)
理(り)屈(くつ)臭(くさ)い (rikutsukusai)
理(り)屈(くつ)付(づ)ける (rikutsuzukeru)
理(り)屈(くつ)っぽい (rikutsuppoi)
理(り)屈(くつ)張(ば)る (rikutsubaru)
小(こ)理(り)屈(くつ) (korikutsu)
屁(へ)理(り)屈(くつ) (herikutsu)

References

^ Kōetsu Satō, Eom Seogin (2009) 日中韓同字異義語小辞典, Tōkyō: Bensei Shuppan, →ISBN
^ NHK Broadcasting Culture Research Institute, editor (1998), NHK日本語発音アクセント辞典 [NHK Japanese Pronunciation Accent Dictionary] (in Japanese), Tokyo: NHK Publishing, Inc., →ISBN
^ Yamada, Tadao et al., editors (2011), 新明解国語辞典 [Shin Meikai Kokugo Jiten] (in Japanese), Seventh edition, Tokyo: Sanseidō, →ISBN
^ Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 [Daijirin] (in Japanese), Third edition, Tokyo: Sanseidō, →ISBN

Korean

Hanja in this term
理	屈

Noun

理屈 • (igul) (hangeul 이굴)

hanja form^? of 이굴