吏

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)

1. 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

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§Chinese

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simp. and trad.		吏

§Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): lì (li⁴)

  (Zhuyin): ㄌㄧˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): lei⁶

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• 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 pronunciation (吏, reconstructed)
Character (吏), Pronunciation 1/1
Initial: 來 (37) Final: 之 Division: III			Openness: Open Tone: Departing (H)			Fanqie: 力置切
Zhengzhang Shangfang	Bernard Karlgren	Li Rong	Pan Wuyun	Edwin Pulleyblank	Wang Li	Shao Rongfen
/lɨH/	/liH/	/liəH/	/lɨH/	/lɨH/	/lĭəH/	/lieH/

Old Chinese pronunciation (吏, reconstructed)
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character								Modern Beijing (Pinyin)								Middle Chinese								Old Chinese								English
吏								lì								‹ liH ›								/*[r]əʔ-s/								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					No.					Phonetic component					Rime group					Rime subdivision					Corresponding MC rime					Old Chinese					Notes
吏					11482					史					之					0					吏					/*rɯs/					史轉註字

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§Japanese

§Kanji

吏

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

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§Readings

• On: り (ri)
• Kun: つかさ (tsukasa)

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§Korean

§Hanja

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

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§Compounds

• • 吏讀 (이두, itwu or idu)

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§Vietnamese

§Han character

吏 (lại, lưỡi)

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