理事

Chinese

Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value)

Pronunciation

Noun

理事

  1. member of a council; director

Derived terms

Verb

理事

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

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

Etymology

Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value). 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

Noun

理(り)事(じ) • (riji) 

  1. director
  2. board of directors

Descendants
  • Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value)
  • → Korean: 이사 (isa)
  • → Vietnamese: lí sự

References
  1. 1960, Hirayama Teruo (平山輝男, editor), 全国アクセント辞典 (Zenkoku Akusento Jiten, “Nationwide Accent Dictionary”), (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Tōkyōdō, →ISBN

Korean
Hanja in this term
理事

Noun

理事 • (isa) (hangeul 이사)

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

Vietnamese
chữ Hán Nôm in this term
理事

Noun

理事

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

Verb

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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