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Chinese symbol for “lawyer”

律师
lǜ shī
Traditional: 律師
lawyer

The closest CC-CEDICT match for lawyer is 律师 (lǜ shī), defined as: lawyer.

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Characters and stroke order

律 lǜ
statute, principle, regulation
radical 60 ⼻ · 9 strokes
师 shī
teacher, professional, master
radical 50 ⼱ · 6 strokes

Traditional forms

Related words

Other words that share a character with 律师.

WordPinyinMeaning
法律fǎ lǜlaw; 条 (tiáo), 套 (tào), 个 (gè)
规律 (規律)guī lǜrule (e.g. of science); law of behavior
纪律 (紀律)jì lǜdiscipline
一律yī lǜsame; identical; uniformly; all; without exception
定律dìng lǜscientific law (e.g. law of conservation of energy); (in human affairs) a generalization based on observation (e.g. "power corrupts")
老师 (老師)lǎo shīteacher
教师 (教師)jiào shīteacher; 个 (gè)
大师 (大師)dà shīgreat master; master

See also: Japanese symbol for “lawyer”.

Data: CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0); Unihan Database (Unicode License v3); Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License (graphics.txt); LGPL-3.0-or-later (dictionary.txt)); wordfreq (CC BY-SA 4.0 (data)). Retrieved 2026-10-22.