Cantonese · Jyutping
Mandarin · Pinyin
- lì
English
- government official, magistrate
- minor government official or functionary (old)
- junior official or civil servant
粵語
- 低級官員或者公務人員
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Words containing 吏
- 官吏gun1 lei6
bureaucrat
- 吏治lei6 zi6
style of governing (of minor official)
- 假吏gaa2 lei6
acting magistrate
- 獄吏juk6 lei6
prison guard
- 吏部lei6 bou6
Ministry of Appointments (in imperial China)
- 蠹吏dou3 lei6
corrupt officials
- 貪官污吏taam1 gun1 wu1 lei6
grasping officials, corrupt mandarins (idiom); abuse and corruption
- 從吏cung4 lei6
minor official
- 故吏gu3 lei6
(literary) former subordinate
- 屬吏suk6 lei6
(old) subordinate; underling
- 污吏wu1 lei6
a corrupt official
- 執達吏zap1 daat6 lei6
bailiff
- 黠吏kit3 lei6
crafty officials
- 吏胥lei6 seoi1
minor official
- 胥吏seoi1 lei6
low-level government official (in former times)
- 奸官污吏gaan1 gun1 wu1 lei6
traitor minister and corrupt official (idiom); abuse and corruption
- 贓官污吏zong1 gun1 wu1 lei6
grasping officials, corrupt mandarins (idiom); abuse and corruption