Kanji: 理

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JLPT Level:	JLPT N4 (upper beginner level)
Kanken Level:	Kanken Level 9 (completion of 2nd grade)
Grade:	Taught during the 2nd grade in Japan
Radical:	玉 (王) Radical name: たまへん
Meaning:	Logic, arrangement, reason, justice, truth
Usage:	Appears very frequently in Japanese newspapers; only about 90 kanji are used more often.

JLPT Level	Word	Meaning
N5	料理(りょうり)	cuisine
N4	地理(ちり)	geography
N4	無理(むり)	impossible
N4	理由(りゆう)	reason
N3	管理(かんり)	control, management (e.g. of a business)
N3	修理(しゅうり)	repairing, mending
N3	処理(しょり)	processing, dealing with, treatment, disposition, disposal
N3	心理(しんり)	mentality
N3	整理(せいり)	sorting, arrangement, adjustment, regulation
N3	代理(だいり)	representation, agency, proxy, deputy, agent
N3	物理(ぶつり)	physics
N3	理解(りかい)	understanding, comprehension
N3	理想(りそう)	ideal
N2	原理(げんり)	principle, theory, fundamental truth
N2	合理(ごうり)	rational
N2	総理大臣(そうりだいじん)	Prime Minister
N2	理科(りか)	science
N1	義理(ぎり)	duty, sense of duty, honor, decency, courtesy, debt of gratitude, social obligation
N1	真理(しんり)	truth
N1	推理(すいり)	reasoning, inference, mystery or detective genre (movie novel etc.)
N1	生理(せいり)	physiology, menses
N1	調理(ちょうり)	cooking
N1	理屈(りくつ)	theory, reason
N1	理性(りせい)	reason, sense
N1	理論(りろん)	theory
N1	論理(ろんり)	logic