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CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY

说理

shuōlǐ

to reason

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DEFINITIONS & USAGE

Meaning and common use

01

to reason

02

to argue logically

REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES

How 说理 actually appears in real sentences.

These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 说理 appears in 3 of the 89,190 sentences we searched. Sentences without a published English translation are shown in Chinese only.

跟小人说理,就如同对牛弹琴。gēn xiǎo rén shuō lǐ, jiù rú tóng duì niú tán qín。

Reasoning with a villain is pointless.

她说理的主线引人注目,但从根本上是靠不住的。tā shuō lǐ de zhǔ xiàn yǐn rén zhù mù, dàn cóng gēn běn shàng shì kào bú zhù de。

Her line of reasoning is attractive, but ultimately fallacious.

这能向谁说理去?zhè néng xiàng shuí shuō lǐ qù?

No published English translation for this sentence.

COMMON COLLOCATIONS

Words that keep company with 说理.

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

Directly before

  • 她说理1
  • 小人说理1
  • 谁说理1

Directly after

  • 说理的1
  • 说理去1
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 说理

What does 说理 mean in Chinese?

说理 (shuōlǐ) means to reason.

How do you pronounce 说理?

说理 is pronounced shuōlǐ.

Is 说理 an HSK word?

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

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