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Chinese
to manage; to heed; to put in order
to manage; to heed; to put in order; reason; logic; science; inner principle or structure
莆田市政协文化文史和学习委员会 , editor (2021), “理事”, in 莆仙方言大词典 [Comprehensive Dictionary of Puxian Dialect] (overall work in Mandarin and Puxian Min), Xiamen University Press, →ISBN, page 357.
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”).