理由
lǐ​yóu HSK3

reason

理由 lǐ​yóu
reason noun
a reason, justification, or ground for an action, belief, or state of affairs

你有什么理由迟到？

nǐ yǒu shén​me lǐ​yóu chí​dào?

What is your excuse for being late?

Frequency
Movie subtitles
106.4 per million appears in 36% of films
Written text
78.3 per million

Details
HSK 2.0
Level 5
HSK 3.0
Level 3

Cross-References

Classifier

Sources
Definitions
CC-CEDICT
Frequency data
SUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)