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CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY

有理

yǒulǐ

reasonable

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DEFINITIONS & USAGE

Meaning and common use

01

reasonable

02

justified

03

right

04

(math.) rational

REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES

How 有理 actually appears in real sentences.

These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 有理 appears in 4 of the 89,190 sentences we searched. Sentences without a published English translation are shown in Chinese only.

强者有理。qiáng zhě yǒu lǐ。

No published English translation for this sentence.

造反有理,革命无罪!zào fǎn yǒu lǐ, gé mìng wú zuì!

No published English translation for this sentence.

造反有理,革命无罪。zào fǎn yǒu lǐ, gé mìng wú zuì。

No published English translation for this sentence.

COMMON COLLOCATIONS

Words that keep company with 有理.

Counted from the same corpus: the word that most often comes directly before, and directly after, 有理.

Directly before

  • 造反有理2
  • 强者有理1
  • 咋有理1

Directly after

  • No repeated neighbour in the corpus.
ABOUT THIS ENTRY

Where this entry comes from

The HSK level, part of speech, and pronunciation come from the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus. The English definitions come from CC-CEDICT. Corpus sentences, collocations, and the frequency figure come from the Tatoeba Chinese sentence export and are counted rather than written, so nothing on this page is invented. Usage notes and the hand-written examples that appear higher up exist only for a handful of entries.

Definitions from CC-CEDICT, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Vocabulary levels and parts of speech from the HSK 3.1 syllabus. This compiled dictionary is shared under the same CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

COMMON QUESTIONS

About 有理

What does 有理 mean in Chinese?

有理 (yǒulǐ) means reasonable.

How do you pronounce 有理?

有理 is pronounced yǒulǐ.

Is 有理 an HSK word?

有理 is on the list of the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus.

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