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Chinese
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to manage; to heed; to put in order to manage; to heed; to put in order; reason; logic; science; inner principle or structure
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wisdom; knowledge
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simp. and trad. (理智)
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Pronunciation
Etymology 1
Wasei kango (和製漢語), orthographically borrowed from Japanese 理知 (richi),[1] first attested in 《藝術的創作與鑒賞》 by Feng Zikai in 1924.
Noun
理智
- reason; intellect
Adjective
理智
- reasonable; rational
Synonyms
- 冷靜/冷静 (lěngjìng)
- 在步 (Zhangzhou Hokkien)
- 從容/从容
- 沉著 (chénzhuó)
- 淡定 (dàndìng)
- 清醒 (qīngxǐng)
- 精英 (Zhangzhou Hokkien)
- 肅清/肃清 (sùqīng) (archaic)
- 自如 (zìrú) (literary)
- 自若 (zìruò) (literary)
- 鎮定/镇定 (zhèndìng)
- 鎮靜/镇静 (zhènjìng)
Etymology 2
Proper noun
理智
- (~村) Lizhi (a village in Zhonglu, Lichuan, Enshi prefecture, Hubei, China)
References
- ^ 汉语外来词词典 [Chinese Loanword Dictionary] (in Chinese), 1984, page 660
Japanese
For pronunciation and definitions of 理智 – see the following entry.
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(This term, 理智, is an alternative spelling (dated) of the above term.)
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