吏 means “official, civil servant”

り · ri

Also: officer, an official

On'yomi (Chinese reading)

リ

JLPT N1 · Taught in secondary school · 6 strokes

The story

A line (一) laid over 史, the scribe who kept the records: picture that scribe wearing his cap of office. 吏 is an official of the old kind: 官吏, a government official, is a word from older law that still appears in Japan's Constitution.

Used in 官吏 (kanri, government official) and 吏員 (riin, local government employee)

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Readings from KANJIDIC2, © EDRDG, CC BY-SA.