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理事

Chinese

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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

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Noun

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理事

  1. member of a council; director

Derived terms

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Verb

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理事

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

Japanese

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

Etymology

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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

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Noun

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理(り)事(じ) • (riji) 

  1. director
  2. board of directors

Descendants

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

References

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  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

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Hanja in this term
理事

Noun

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理事 • (isa) (hangeul 이사)

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

Vietnamese

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chữ Hán Nôm in this term
理事

Noun

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理事

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

Verb

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理事

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