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吏lì
  1. minor government official or functionary (old)

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从吏cóng lì

minor official; to be an official

假吏jiǎ lì

acting magistrate; temporary official (in former times)

官吏guān lì

bureaucrat; official

属吏shǔ lì

(old) subordinate; underling

故吏gù lì

(literary) former subordinate

污吏wū lì

a corrupt official

狱吏yù lì

prison guard; jailer (old)

胥吏xū lì

low-level government official (in former times)

蠹吏dù lì

corrupt officials

奸官污吏jiān guān wū lì

traitor minister and corrupt official (idiom); abuse and corruption

贪官污吏tān guān wū lì

grasping officials, corrupt mandarins (idiom); abuse and corruption

赃官污吏zāng guān wū lì

grasping officials, corrupt mandarins (idiom); abuse and corruption

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Japanese data from JMdict, JMnedict, KANJIDIC2, and RADKFILE/KRADFILE (EDRDG). Chinese from CC-CEDICT. French and English from English Wiktionary via Wiktextract. Example sentences from Tatoeba. Stroke diagrams from KanjiVG. JLPT levels follow Jonathan Waller's lists. Full credits on the data and licences page.