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= li + Ø4
minor government official or functionary (old)
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吏 character breakdown

Component Translations
zhàng = zh + ang4
measure of length, ten Chinese feet (3.3 m) / to measure / husband / polite appellation for an older male
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kǒu = k + ou3
mouth / classifier for things with mouths (people, domestic animals, cannons, wells etc) / classifier for bites or mouthfuls
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Characters with 吏 as component

使
使
shǐ = sh + Ø3
to make / to cause / to enable / to use / to employ / to send / to instruct sb to do sth / envoy / messenger
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Words with 吏

bureaucrat / official
grasping officials, corrupt mandarins (idiom); abuse and corruption
acting magistrate / temporary official (in former times)

Sentences with 吏

吏 currently does not appear in any sentence.
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