理由

りゆう
reason

Reading

Readingりゆう
N4 VocabJLPT N4
Kanji理由

Meanings

  1. reason
  1. groundsn.
  2. pretext
  3. excuse
  4. motive

Synonyms

事情事由経緯経過訳

Real voices: how native speakers say it

These sentences were read aloud by real people — native Japanese speakers — for the open Mozilla Common Voice project. Listen to how a phrase sounds in real speech: the intonation, the pace, the way words run together. Two speakers mean two different people read it — compare them.

売れない理由をあげればキリがない
うれないりゆうをあげればきりがないIf I list the reasons why it doesn't sell, there's no end to it.
理由もわからず急にスマホが動かなくなる
りゆうもわからずきゅうにすまほがうごかなくなるWithout understanding why, my phone suddenly stops working.
しかしそこに国家の存在理由があるのでなければならない。
しかしそこにこっかのそんざいりゆうがあるのでなければならない。But the state's reason for existence must be there.

Recordings and sentences: Mozilla Common Voice, CC0

Stroke order

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Practice Writing

Practice Writing 理由

The whole word, one canvas per character — with a guide, then twice from memory, every character checked