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ドウリ
Meanings
Noun
1. reason; logic; sense; truth; right
Alt. forms
道どう理り
98%
どうり
1%
ドウリ
Pitch accent
ド
ウリ
Used in: 1
Composed of
road; path; way; set of practices; Buddhist teachings; Taoism; modern administrative region of Japan (Hokkaido)
reason; principle; general principle (as opposed to individual concrete phenomenon); (in neo-Confucianism) the underlying principles of the cosmos
Used in vocabulary (5 in total)
indeed; it's no wonder
the principle of the thing
unreasonableness; absurdity; irrationality
contrary to reason
very reasonable; being perfectly consistent with reason; standing to reason
Examples (2 in total)
There's no reason to believe it.
Why will you not listen to reason?