吏 — Chinese character
吏
lì
government official, magistrate
- Pinyin
- lì
- Radical
- 30 ⼝ (Mouth)
- Strokes
- 6
- Components
- 丈 口
- Japanese
- 吏 as a kanji
Common words with 吏
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 官吏 | guān lì | bureaucrat; official |
| 贪官污吏 (貪官污吏) | tān guān wū lì | grasping officials, corrupt mandarins (idiom); abuse and corruption |
| 吏治 | lì zhì | style of governing (of minor official); achievement in office |
| 狱吏 (獄吏) | yù lì | prison guard; jailer (old) |
| 属吏 (屬吏) | shǔ lì | (old) subordinate; underling |
| 胥吏 | xū lì | low-level government official (in former times) |
| 污吏 | wū lì | a corrupt official |
| 假吏 | jiǎ lì | acting magistrate; temporary official (in former times) |
| 吏胥 | lì xū | minor official |
| 奸官污吏 | jiān guān wū lì | traitor minister and corrupt official (idiom); abuse and corruption |
| 从吏 (從吏) | cóng lì | minor official; to be an official |
| 故吏 | gù lì | (literary) former subordinate |
吏 in the Chinese classics
Occurrences: Art of War 5 · Mencius 5
- Art of War 9.33
- Art of War 10.16
- Art of War 10.17
- Art of War 10.18
- Mencius 2A.5
- Mencius 2B.8
- Mencius 3A.3
- Mencius 5A.3
Data: Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License (graphics.txt); LGPL-3.0-or-later (dictionary.txt)); Unihan Database (Unicode License v3); CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Retrieved 2026-10-22.