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  • minor government official or functionary (old)
Trad. 從吏
  • minor official
  • to be an official
  • low-level government official (in former times)
Trad. 屬吏
  • (old) subordinate; underling
Trad. 獄吏
  • prison guard
  • jailer (old)
  • acting magistrate
  • temporary official (in former times)
  • style of governing (of minor official)
  • achievement in office
  • (literary) former subordinate
  • Ministry of Appointments (in imperial China)
  • traitor minister and corrupt official (idiom); abuse and corruption
Trad. 貪官污吏
  • grasping officials, corrupt mandarins (idiom); abuse and corruption
Trad. 贓官污吏
  • grasping officials, corrupt mandarins (idiom); abuse and corruption

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