理由

HSK 5#1280 by frequencyradical 王

lǐ yóu["n"]

reason; grounds; justification

Measure word: 个

Examples

没有理由抱怨。

There is no cause for complaint.

你没理由生气。

You didn't have any reasons to be angry.

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Definitions adapted from CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0, modified). Example sentences from Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0 FR). Frequency ranks from the BCC corpus. Full credits on the Attributions page.