Jisho

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6 strokes
Radical:
mouth, opening
Parts:

Speed

Stroke order

On reading compounds

  • 吏 【リ】 government official, public official
  • 吏員 【リイン】 official
  • 官吏 【カンリ】 government official, public servant, civil servant
  • 刑吏 【ケイリ】 executioner

Readings

Japanese names:
さと、 し
Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
li4
Korean:
ri

Spanish

  • oficial del gobierno
  • funcionario

Portuguese

  • oficial
  • um oficial

French

  • fonctionnaire
  • préposé
1894 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
1911 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
183 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
1684 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
1126 Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
329 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
1007 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
1044 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
1883 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
321 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
4351 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
2201 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
2963 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
700 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
3299 Morohashi
3536 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
706 New Nelson (John Haig)
693 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
748 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
1067 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
1566 2001 Kanji
0a6.22 The Kanji Dictionary
4-6-4 SKIP code
5004.6 Four corner code
5000.6 Four corner code
1-45-89 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
540f Unicode hex code

11 strokes
Radical:
power, force
Parts:
task, duties
Kun:
つと.める
On:
Jōyō kanji, taught in grade 5
JLPT level N3
111 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Speed

Stroke order

On reading compounds

  • 務歯 【ムシ】 zipper teeth, zip teeth
  • 務所 【ムショ】 prison, jail, slammer, pen
  • 政務 【セイム】 government affairs
  • 外務 【ガイム】 foreign affairs

Kun reading compounds

  • 勤める 【つとめる】 to work (for), to be employed (at), to serve (in), to serve (as), to act (as), to fill (the position of), to play the role (of), to conduct a religious service

Readings

Japanese names:
つかさ、 み
Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
wu4
Korean:
mu

Spanish

  • tarea
  • obligaciones
  • deber
  • cargo
  • servir
  • desempeñar un cargo

Portuguese

  • tarefa
  • deveres

French

  • tâche
  • devoir
  • travail
722 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese (Florence Sakade)
815 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese 3rd edition (Henshall, Seeley and De Groot)
795 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
140 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
3167 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
491 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
372 Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
1377 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
3.5 Japanese for Busy People
235 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
235 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
388 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
222 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
1505 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
797 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1085 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
1235 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
2394 Morohashi
1173 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
546 New Nelson (John Haig)
1227 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
1313 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
244 The Kanji Way to Japanese Language Power (Dale Crowley)
747 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
3545 2001 Kanji
4i7.6 The Kanji Dictionary
1-5-6 SKIP code
1822.7 Four corner code
1-44-19 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
52d9 Unicode hex code