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

理屈

Alternative spelling
理窟 (dated)

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]

理(り)屈(くつ) • (rikutsu)

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

^ Kōetsu Satō, Eom Seogin (2009) 日中韓同字異義語小辞典, Tōkyō: Bensei Shuppan, →ISBN
^ NHK Broadcasting Culture Research Institute, editor (1998), NHK日本語発音アクセント辞典 [NHK Japanese Pronunciation Accent Dictionary] (in Japanese), Tokyo: NHK Publishing, Inc., →ISBN
^ Yamada, Tadao et al., editors (2011), 新明解国語辞典 [Shin Meikai Kokugo Jiten] (in Japanese), Seventh edition, Tokyo: Sanseidō, →ISBN
^ Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 [Daijirin] (in Japanese), Third edition, Tokyo: Sanseidō, →ISBN

Hanja in this term
理	屈

理屈 • (igul) (hangeul 이굴)