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廷尉
tíng​wèi

Minister of Justice

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廷尉 tíng​wèi
Minister of Justice
The chief judicial officer in imperial China, first established during the Qin dynasty as one of the Nine Ministers; the office was in charge of the central prison and legal proceedings

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0.400 per million

Cross-References

See

  • 大理寺卿 dà​lǐ​sì​qīng

Referenced by

  • 大理 dà​lǐ

Sources

Frequency data
BCC Corpus (BLCU)