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JLPT N2nounLevel estimated by Bebop

理り屈くつ

rikutsu

reason, logic

Example sentences

彼かれはその理屈りくつがわからないほどばかではない。
He is too wise not to see the reason.
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それは理屈りくつに合あわない。
It is contrary to reason.
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彼女かのじょは理屈りくつの上うえでしか貧乏びんぼうを知しらない。
She knows poverty only in the abstract.
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Kanji in 理屈

理logic; arrangementOnリKunことわり
屈yield; bendOnクツKunかがむ・かがめる

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