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

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

Literary Chinese 理事 (“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

Noun

理(り)事(じ) • (riji) 

  1. director
  2. board of directors

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

References
  1. 1960, Tetsuo Hirayama (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
Hán tự 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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