天理

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
• Min Nan (POJ): thian-lí / thiⁿ-lí

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Pinyin: tiānlǐ
    • Zhuyin: ㄊㄧㄢ ㄌㄧˇ
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: tianlii
    • IPA ^(key): /tʰi̯ɛn⁵⁵ li²¹⁴⁻²¹⁽⁴⁾/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: tin¹ lei⁵
    • Yale: tīn léih
    • Cantonese Pinyin: tin¹ lei⁵
    • Guangdong Romanization: tin¹ léi⁵
    • IPA ^(key): /tʰiːn⁵⁵ lei̯¹³/
• Hakka
  • (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Meinong)
    • Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: thiên-lî
    • Hakka Romanization System: tien´ li´
    • Hagfa Pinyim: tian¹ li¹
    • IPA: /tʰi̯en²⁴⁻¹¹ li²⁴/
• Min Nan
  • (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)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: thiⁿ-lí
    • Tâi-lô: thinn-lí
    • Phofsit Daibuun: tvilie
    • IPA (Xiamen): /tʰĩ⁴⁴⁻²² li⁵³/
    • IPA (Taipei): /tʰĩ⁴⁴⁻³³ li⁵³/
    • 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 justice

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

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

Proper noun

天理

1. (～市) Tenri (a city in Nara, Japan)

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Japanese

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

Pronunciation

• On’yomi
  • IPA^(key): [tẽ̞nɾʲi]

Noun

天理 (hiragana てんり, rōmaji tenri)

1. laws of nature, natural laws

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Korean

Hanja in this term
天	理

Noun

天理 • (cheolli) (hangeul 천리)

1. Hanja form^? of 천리.