nho lại

Thân thiện

Ông nội tôi kể rằng cụ cố từng làm một nho lại ở huyện đường.

Definition

1. Noun (historical):
   • Clerk: A minor official or scribe working in the administrative offices of a district-level mandarin in feudal Vietnam. The term refers to a literate person who handled documents, records, and routine bureaucratic tasks.

Usage Examples

• Noun:
  • Ông tổ của gia đình tôi từng làm một viên nho lại. (My family's ancestor once worked as a clerk.)
  • Công việc của các nho lại là ghi chép sổ sách. (The work of the clerks was to keep records and ledgers.)

Advanced Usage

• The term "nho lại" is now considered archaic and is primarily used in historical or literary contexts to describe the pre-modern Vietnamese bureaucratic system.

Variants and Related Words

• Lại mục (n): A category of low-ranking mandarinal officials or clerks, often grouped with "nho lại".
• Thư lại (n): Another historical term for a scribe or clerk.

Synonyms

• Scribe: A person who copies out documents.
• Minor official: A lower-level administrative worker.
• Bureaucrat: An official in a government department.

Notes on Usage

• The word is marked as "cũ" (old) or "arch." (archaic) in dictionaries, indicating it is obsolete in modern language and used only when referring to the past.
• It specifically denotes a person educated in the Confucian classics ("nho") who performed clerical ("lại") duties, reflecting the scholar-based administration of the time.

Học thuật

1. (cũ) Clerk