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吏

吏

吏	U+540F, 吏 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-540F

← 后
[U+540E]

CJK Unified Ideographs

吐 →
[U+5410]

See also: 史 and 更

Translingual

Han character

吏 (radical 30 口+3, 6 strokes, cangjie input 十中大 (JLK), four-corner 5000₆, composition ⿻丈口)

government official, magistrate

References

KangXi: page 176, character 2

Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 3299

Dae Jaweon: page 393, character 2

Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 1, page 18, character 3

Unihan data for U+540F

Chinese

simp. and trad.		吏

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 吏
Bronze inscriptions	Large seal script	Small seal script

Characters in the same phonetic series (史) (Zhengzhang, 2003)
	Old Chinese
吏	*rɯs
倳	*ʔsrɯs
剚	*ʔsrɯs
事	ʔsrɯs, zrɯs
史	*srɯʔ
使	srɯʔ, srɯs
駛	srɯʔ, srɯs

Pronunciation

Mandarin

(Pinyin): lì (li⁴)

(Zhuyin): ㄌㄧˋ
Cantonese (Jyutping): lei⁶

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese, Beijing)⁺
  - Pinyin: lì
  - Zhuyin: ㄌㄧˋ
  - Wade-Giles: lih⁴
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: lih
  - IPA ^(key): /li⁵¹/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
  - Jyutping: lei⁶
  - Yale: leih
  - Cantonese Pinyin: lei⁶
  - IPA ^(key): /lei̯²²/

Middle Chinese: /lɨ^H/▼

Rime
Character	吏
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	來 (37)
Final (韻)	之 (19)
Tone (調)	Departing (H)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	III
Fanqie	力置切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/lɨ^H/
Pan Wuyun	/lɨ^H/
Shao Rongfen	/lie^H/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/lɨ^H/
Li Rong	/liə^H/
Wang Li	/lĭə^H/
Bernard Karlgren	/li^H/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	lì

Old Chinese▼

(Baxter-Sagart): /*[r]əʔ-s/

(Zhengzhang): /*rɯs/

Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	吏
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	lì
Middle Chinese	‹ li^H ›
Old Chinese	/*[r]əʔ-s/
English	officer
Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter-Sagart system: * Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence; * Square brackets "[]" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. [t] as coda may in fact be -t or -p; Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix; * Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary; * Period "." indicates syllable boundary.

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	吏
Reading #	1/1
No.	11482
Phonetic component	史
Rime group	之
Rime subdivision	0
Corresponding MC rime	吏
Old Chinese	/*rɯs/
Notes	史轉註字

Definitions

吏

government official

Japanese

Kanji

吏

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

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Readings

On: り (ri)

Kun: つかさ (tsukasa)

Korean

Hanja

吏 • ‎(ri) (hangeul 리, revised ri, McCune-Reischauer ri)

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Compounds

- 吏讀 (이두, itwu or idu)

Vietnamese

Han character

吏 (lại, lưỡi)

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