吏 — official, clerk

り吏 official

り

U+540F Unicode hex codepoint — a unique identifier for this character in the Unicode standard. Heisig #748 Index in James Heisig's "Remembering the Kanji" — a popular textbook that teaches kanji through mnemonics and stories.

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Meanings

official
clerk

Readings

On'yomi: り ri

word

り ri On'yomi On'yomi (音読み) — the Sino-Japanese reading, derived from Chinese pronunciation. Most commonly used in compound words (jukugo).

官(かん) 吏(り) kanri government official

Words by frequency and grade

1 word

Each dot is a word containing 吏: further left is more common, higher up needs a later school grade (the grade of its hardest kanji). Click a dot to open the word.

S = secondary school · 1 word has no frequency rank; it sits in the Unranked column.

Stroke order

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Components

Composed of

たけ丈 length

くち口 mouth #30

Used as component in (1)

つかう使 use

Compound ideograph (会意). A person (大) who commands with their mouth (口) — an official, civil servant.

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Kangxi Radical The Kangxi radicals are a set of 214 character components standardized in the 1716 Kangxi Dictionary. Every kanji is classified under one radical, used for dictionary lookup and character organization.

#30 口 mouth