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): ㄊㄧㄢ ㄌㄧˇ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): tin¹ lei⁵
• Hakka

  (Sixian, PFS): thiên-lî

  (Meixian, Guangdong): tiên¹ li¹

• Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): thian-lí / thiⁿ-lí

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: tiānlǐ
    • Zhuyin: ㄊㄧㄢ ㄌㄧˇ
    • 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 Meinong)
    • Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: thiên-lî
    • Hakka Romanization System: tien´ li´
    • 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

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

Synonyms

• (justice): 公道 (gōngdào)

Derived terms

• 不傷天理／不伤天理
• 天理不容
• 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

1. (～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])
• IPA^(key): [tẽ̞nɾʲi]

Noun

天(てん)理(り) • (tenri) 

1. laws of nature, natural laws

Proper noun

天(てん)理(り) • (Tenri) 

1. Tenri (a city in Nara Prefecture, Japan)

Korean

Hanja in this term
天	理

Noun

天理 • (cheolli) (hangeul 천리)

1. Hanja form^? of 천리.

Vietnamese

chữ Hán Nôm in this term
天	理

Noun

天理

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