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🌏 Region(s): Honshu (Standard)

ごくり【獄吏】

gokuri

Definition

Noun

  1. A person responsible for managing, overseeing, securing or supervising a prison or a jail: a jailer (also jailor, gaoler), a warder, a prison officer, a prison official.
  2. (By extension) A prison guard, a watchman, a keeper, a warden, a correctional officer, a detention officer.

Etymology

Derived from the root ごく【獄】 goku "prison; jail" and the noun suffix 【吏】 ri "official; officer"

意味:かんごくのやくにん【監獄の役人】

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