梳理
shūlǐ
to comb, to sort out
Part of speech · verb
Pattern visualization
Examples
- 她梳理了一下头发。She combed her hair a bit.
- 我们需要梳理一下整个流程。We need to sort through the whole process.
Collocations
梳理头发梳理思路梳理流程梳理关系
Mnemonic
梳 shū "comb" + 理 lǐ "to put in order": to comb through and tidy, i.e. to comb, to sort through (something tangled). Korean renders it as "to comb, to sort out". Two shades: physically combing and tidying hair (梳理头发) and figuratively sorting through complex thoughts, processes or relations (梳理思路 to sort out one’s thinking). The image is of untangling like combing hair. 梳 means "comb" (梳子 a comb); 理 means "to order" (整理).
Related
整理理顺疏理清理
Quick check
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