理事

Chinese

		to manage; to heed; to put in order to manage; to heed; to put in order; reason; logic; science; inner principle or structure	matter; thing; item matter; thing; item; work; affair
simp. and trad. (理事)		理	事
anagram		事理

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): lǐshì

  (Zhuyin): ㄌㄧˇ ㄕˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): lei⁵ si⁶, lei⁵ si^6-2
• Hakka (Sixian, PFS): lî-sṳ
• Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): lí-sīr / lí-sū

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: lǐshì
    • Zhuyin: ㄌㄧˇ ㄕˋ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: lǐshìh
    • Wade–Giles: li³-shih⁴
    • Yale: lǐ-shr̀
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: liishyh
    • Palladius: лиши (liši)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /li²¹⁴⁻²¹ ʂʐ̩⁵¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: lei⁵ si⁶, lei⁵ si^6-2
    • Yale: léih sih, léih sí
    • Cantonese Pinyin: lei⁵ si⁶, lei⁵ si^6-2
    • Guangdong Romanization: léi⁵ xi⁶, léi⁵ xi^6-2
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /lei̯¹³ siː²²/, /lei̯¹³ siː²²⁻³⁵/
• Hakka
  • (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Meinong)
    • Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: lî-sṳ
    • Hakka Romanization System: li´ sii
    • Hagfa Pinyim: li¹ si⁴
    • Sinological IPA: /li²⁴⁻¹¹ sɨ⁵⁵/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien: Quanzhou)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: lí-sīr
    • Tâi-lô: lí-sīr
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /li⁵⁵⁴⁻²⁴ sɯ⁴¹/
  • (Hokkien: General Taiwanese, Xiamen, Zhangzhou)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: lí-sū
    • Tâi-lô: lí-sū
    • Phofsit Daibuun: lysu
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /li⁴¹⁻⁴⁴ su³³/
    • IPA (Taipei): /li⁵³⁻⁴⁴ su³³/
    • IPA (Xiamen, Zhangzhou): /li⁵³⁻⁴⁴ su²²/

Noun

理事

1. member of a council; director

Derived terms

• 理事國／理事国 (lǐshìguó)
• 理事會／理事会 (lǐshìhuì)

 

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

Literary Chinese 理事 (lǐshì, “to arrange matters”). 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

• (Tokyo) り​じ [ríꜜjì] (Atamadaka – [1])
• IPA^(key): [ɾʲiʑi]

Noun

理(り)事(じ) • (riji) 

1. director
2. board of directors

Descendants

• → Chinese: 理事 (lǐshì)
• → Korean: 이사 (isa)
• → Vietnamese: lí sự

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”).