| 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) |
officer, an official
- On:
- リ
Jōyō kanji, taught in junior high
JLPT level N1
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
- Korean:
- ri
Spanish
- oficial del gobierno
- funcionario
Portuguese
- oficial
- um oficial
French
- fonctionnaire
- préposé
| 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 |
Jōyō kanji, taught in grade 2
JLPT level N5
618 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers
Stroke order
On reading compounds
- 読書 【ドクショ】 reading (books)
- 読者 【ドクシャ】 reader
- 積ん読 【ツンドク】 buying books and not reading them, stockpiling books, tsundoku, books bought but not read
- 必読 【ヒツドク】 must-read, required reading
- 読書 【ドクショ】 reading (books)
- 読本 【トクホン】 reading-book, reader, guidebook, manual, textbook (esp. a pre-war elementary school Japanese language textbook)
- 読点 【トウテン】 comma
- 句読 【クトウ】 breaks and pauses (in a sentence), punctuation, way of reading (esp. kanbun)
- 吏読 【リト】 Idu (archaic writing system that uses Chinese characters to represent the Korean language)
Kun reading compounds
- 読む 【よむ】 to read, to recite (e.g. a sutra), to chant, to predict, to guess, to forecast, to read (someone's thoughts), to see (e.g. into someone's heart), to divine, to pronounce, to read (e.g. a kanji), to decipher, to read (a meter, graph, music, etc.), to tell (the time), to count, to estimate, to read (a kanji) with its native Japanese reading
Readings
- Japanese names:
- よみ
- Korean:
- dog, du
Spanish
- leer
Portuguese
- leia
French
- lire
| 123 | A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese (Florence Sakade) |
| 206 | A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese 3rd edition (Henshall, Seeley and De Groot) |
| 189 | A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall) |
| 484 | A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage |
| 4375 | Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson) |
| 55 | Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill) |
| 88 | Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki) |
| 2142 | Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill) |
| 2.10 | Japanese for Busy People |
| 244 | Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky) |
| 244 | Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky) |
| 180 | Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono) |
| 1689 | Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide |
| 1943 | Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern) |
| 1038 | Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern) |
| 1401 | Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern) |
| 354 | Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette) |
| 35580P | Morohashi |
| 1541 | New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern) |
| 5629 | New Nelson (John Haig) |
| 348 | Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig) |
| 372 | Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig) |
| 323 | The Kanji Way to Japanese Language Power (Dale Crowley) |
| 233 | Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask) |
| 3057 | 2001 Kanji |
| 7a7.9 | The Kanji Dictionary |
| 1-7-7 | SKIP code |
| 0461.2 | Four corner code |
| 1-38-41 | JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code |
| 8aad | Unicode hex code |