道理
dào​li HSK2

reason

道理 dào​li
reason noun
logic, sense, or valid justification for a statement, argument, or action

你说的很有道理，我没法反驳。

nǐ shuō de hěn yǒu dào​li, wǒ méi​fǎ fǎn​bó.

What you say makes a lot of sense; I can't refute it.

principle noun
a fundamental truth, law, or underlying basis of how things work

他向我们解释了其中的科学道理。

tā xiàng wǒ​men jiě​shì le qí​zhōng de kē​xué dào​li.

He explained the scientific principles behind it to us.

Frequency
Movie subtitles
41.6 per million appears in 17% of films
Written text
39.0 per million

Details
HSK 2.0
Level 5
HSK 3.0
Level 2

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