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Japanese
| For pronunciation and definitions of れい – see the following entries.
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- an order, command, decree
- (historical) in ancient China, a regional governor or magistrate
- (historical) in the early Meiji period, the forerunner of a 知事 (chiji, “prefectural governor”)
- (historical) in the Kamakura period, the vice-minister of the 政所 (mandokoro, “office of financial affairs”)
- This term needs a translation to English.
- (rare, law, historical) an administrative and civil code developed during the Qin dynasty that was, alongside the 律 (ritsu), spread throughout East Asia especially Japan where it was further revised into the 律令 (Ritsuryō) system
- act, law, ordinance, rule
- law, ordinance, regulation
- (historical) high-ranking official or magistrate
- (obsolete) admonition, teaching
- (rare) beautiful, excellent, fine, good
- honorific prefix added before a term of kinship to show respect to someone else's relative
- a female given name
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(This term, れい (rei), is the hiragana spelling of the above terms.)
For a list of all kanji read as れい, see Category:Japanese kanji read as れい.)
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(The following entries are uncreated: 冷, 隷.)