推理

Chinese

		push; refuse (responsibility); shove	to manage; to heed; to put in order to manage; to heed; to put in order; reason; logic; science; inner principle or structure
simp. and trad. (推理)		推	理

Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Pinyin): tuīlǐ

(Zhuyin): ㄊㄨㄟㄌㄧˇ
Cantonese (Jyutping): teoi¹ lei⁵
Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): thui-lí / chhui-lí

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: tuīlǐ
  - Zhuyin: ㄊㄨㄟㄌㄧˇ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: tueilǐ
  - Wade–Giles: tʻui¹-li³
  - Yale: twēi-lǐ
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: tueilii
  - Palladius: туйли (tujli)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /tʰu̯eɪ̯⁵⁵ li²¹⁴⁻²¹⁽⁴⁾/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
  - Jyutping: teoi¹ lei⁵
  - Yale: tēui léih
  - Cantonese Pinyin: toey¹ lei⁵
  - Guangdong Romanization: têu¹ léi⁵
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /tʰɵy̯⁵⁵ lei̯¹³/
Southern Min
- (Hokkien: Xiamen, Quanzhou, Zhangzhou, General Taiwanese)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: thui-lí
  - Tâi-lô: thui-lí
  - Phofsit Daibuun: tuilie
  - Sinological IPA (Xiamen, Zhangzhou): /tʰui⁴⁴⁻²² li⁵³/
  - Sinological IPA (Quanzhou): /tʰui³³ li⁵⁵⁴/
  - Sinological IPA (Taipei): /tʰui⁴⁴⁻³³ li⁵³/
  - Sinological IPA (Kaohsiung): /tʰui⁴⁴⁻³³ li⁴¹/
- (Hokkien: variant in Taiwan)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: chhui-lí
  - Tâi-lô: tshui-lí
  - Phofsit Daibuun: zhuilie
  - Sinological IPA (Kaohsiung): /t͡sʰui⁴⁴⁻³³ li⁴¹/

Verb

推理

(logic) to infer; to reason
法律推理 ― fǎlǜ tuīlǐ ― legal reasoning

Synonyms

推斷／推断 (tuīduàn)

Derived terms

動機推理 / 动机推理 (dòngjī tuīlǐ)

Japanese

Kanji in this term
推	理
すい Grade: 6	り Grade: 2
on'yomi

Pronunciation

(Tokyo) すいり [súꜜìrì] (Atamadaka – [1])^[1]
IPA^(key): [sɨiɾʲi]

Noun

推(すい)理(り) • (suiri)

deduction, inference
- 2025 April 21, 世耕弘成, quotee, “第217回国会　参議院　予算委員会　第16号　令和7年4月21日”, in 国会会議録検索システム‎^[1], 国立国会図書館:
  これは私、ここで推理や臆測を披露するわけにはいきませんので、申し上げるのは控えたいと思います。
  Kore wa watakushi, koko de suiri ya okusoku o hirō suru wake ni wa iki-masen node, mōshiageru no wa hikae-tai to omoi-masu.
  I cannot offer any inferences or speculation here, so I will refrain from commenting on this matter.

Derived terms

推理小説(すいりしょうせつ) (suiri shōsetsu)

Verb

推(すい)理(り)する • (suiri suru) transitive suru (stem 推(すい)理(り)し (suiri shi), past 推(すい)理(り)した (suiri shita))

deduce, infer

Conjugation

Conjugation of "推理する" (See Appendix:Japanese verbs)
Katsuyōkei ("stem forms")
Mizenkei ("imperfective")	推理し	すいりし	suiri shi
Ren’yōkei ("continuative")	推理し	すいりし	suiri shi
Shūshikei ("terminal")	推理する	すいりする	suiri suru
Rentaikei ("attributive")	推理する	すいりする	suiri suru
Kateikei ("hypothetical")	推理すれ	すいりすれ	suiri sure
Meireikei ("imperative")	推理せよ¹ 推理しろ²	すいりせよ¹ すいりしろ²	suiri seyo¹ suiri shiro²
Key constructions
Passive	推理される	すいりされる	suiri sareru
Causative	推理させる推理さす	すいりさせるすいりさす	suiri saseru suiri sasu
Potential	推理できる	すいりできる	suiri dekiru
Volitional	推理しよう	すいりしよう	suiri shiyō
Negative	推理しない	すいりしない	suiri shinai
Negative continuative	推理せず	すいりせず	suiri sezu
Formal	推理します	すいりします	suiri shimasu
Perfective	推理した	すいりした	suiri shita
Conjunctive	推理して	すいりして	suiri shite
Hypothetical conditional	推理すれば	すいりすれば	suiri sureba

¹ Written imperative
² Spoken imperative

References

^ NHK Broadcasting Culture Research Institute, editor (1998), NHK日本語発音アクセント辞典 [NHK Japanese Pronunciation Accent Dictionary] (in Japanese), Tokyo: NHK Publishing, Inc., →ISBN

“推理”, in 漢字ぺディア [Kanjipedia]‎^[2] (in Japanese), The Japan Kanji Aptitude Testing Foundation, 2015–2026

Vietnamese

chữ Hán Nôm in this term
推	理

Verb

推理

chữ Hán form of suy lí (“to reason; to deduce”)