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
Min Nan (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/
Min Nan
- (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)

Antonyms

理直 (lǐzhí)

Japanese

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

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]
IPA^(key): [ɾʲikɯ̟̊ᵝt͡sɨᵝ]

Noun

理(り)屈(くつ) • (rikutsu)

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

References

日中韓同字異義語小辞典, 2009
1998, NHK日本語発音アクセント辞典 (NHK Japanese Pronunciation Accent Dictionary) (in Japanese), Tōkyō: NHK, →ISBN

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