Japanese word
理由
りゆう
In your course · Chapter 23
- Part of speech
- noun
- Level
- B1
- Frequency
- No. 202 in the course corpus
Meanings
- reason
- grounds
- pretext
- excuse
- motive
Source: Tonada course · JMdict (CC BY-SA 4.0 (EDRDG Licence))
Kanji
- 理
- On reading:
- リ
- Kun reading:
- ことわり
- Meanings:
- logic, arrangement, reason, justice, truth
- 由
- On reading:
- ユ、ユイ、ユウ
- Kun reading:
- よ.る、よし
- Meanings:
- wherefore, a reason
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