minor government official or functionary (old)
Results for “吏”
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Frequency data: Cai & Brysbaert, SUBTLEX-CH (2010), Creative Commons Attribution. The data includes word forms with at least 10 occurrences in an older subtitle sample. It does not provide current frequency or HSK levels. Absence from the sample does not establish that a word is rare. Names, variants and restricted readings identified in the source appear after general-use entries within the same match type.
style of governing (of minor official) / achievement in office
minor official
acting magistrate / temporary official (in former times)
traitor minister and corrupt official (idiom) / abuse and corruption
bureaucrat / official
minor official / to be an official
a corrupt official
prison guard / jailer (old)
low-level government official (in former times)
corrupt officials
grasping officials, corrupt mandarins (idiom) / abuse and corruption
grasping officials, corrupt mandarins (idiom) / abuse and corruption
Ministry of Appointments (in imperial China)
(old) subordinate / underling
(literary) former subordinate