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U+540F, 吏
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-540F

[U+540E]
CJK Unified Ideographs
[U+5410]

U+F9DE, 吏
CJK COMPATIBILITY IDEOGRAPH-F9DE

[U+F9DD]
CJK Compatibility Ideographs
[U+F9DF]

Translingual

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Han character

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(Kangxi radical 30, +3, 6 strokes, cangjie input 十中大 (JLK), four-corner 50006, composition or )

Derived characters

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References

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  • Kangxi Dictionary: page 176, character 2
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 3299
  • Dae Jaweon: page 393, character 2
  • Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 1, page 18, character 3
  • Unihan data for U+540F

Chinese

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simp. and trad.
alternative forms

Glyph origin

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Historical forms of the character
Western Zhou Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han) Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
Bronze inscriptions Small seal script Transcribed ancient scripts

Alternative descendant of , which is also the ancient form of .

Etymology

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See (, “envoy, jail official, matchmaker”).

Pronunciation

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Note:
  • lī/lē - literary;
  • lē - vernacular (俗, Xiamen).

Rime
Character
Reading # 1/1
Initial () (37)
Final () (19)
Tone (調) Departing (H)
Openness (開合) Open
Division () III
Fanqie
Baxter liH
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/lɨH/
Pan
Wuyun
/lɨH/
Shao
Rongfen
/lieH/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/lɨH/
Li
Rong
/liəH/
Wang
Li
/lĭəH/
Bernard
Karlgren
/liH/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex
lei6
BaxterSagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
Middle
Chinese
‹ liH ›
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
Reading # 1/1
No. 11482
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
0
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*rɯs/
Notes

Definitions

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  1. (historical) government official
  2. (historical) petty official
  3. a surname

Compounds

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Japanese

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Kanji

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(Jōyō kanji)

  1. (historical) petty official (low-ranking public servant)

Usage notes

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Whereas high-ranking government officials are referred to as (kan), low-ranking ones are called (ri).

Readings

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  • Go-on: (ri, Jōyō)
  • Kan-on: (ri, Jōyō)
  • Kun: つかさ (tsukasa, )

References

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Korean

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Etymology

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From Middle Chinese (MC liH). Recorded as Middle Korean 리〯 () (Yale: li) in Hunmong Jahoe (訓蒙字會 / 훈몽자회), 1527.

Hanja

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Korean Wikisource has texts containing the hanja:

Wikisource

(eumhun 벼슬아치 (byeoseurachi ri), word-initial (South Korea) 벼슬아치 (byeoseurachi i))

  1. hanja form? of / (government official)

Compounds

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References

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  • 국제퇴계학회 대구경북지부 (國際退溪學會 大邱慶北支部) (2007). Digital Hanja Dictionary, 전자사전/電子字典. [1]

Vietnamese

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Han character

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: Hán Nôm readings: lại[1], lưỡi[2]

  1. (only in compound quan lại) chữ Hán form of lại (government official).
  2. Nôm form of lại (again).

References

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