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HSK
shopping mall / shopping center / department store / emporium / CL: / the business world
HSK 1
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  *系* | 系* | *系
system / department / faculty
HSK 3
department / branch / section / division / CL: 個|个
HSK 3
head of a (government etc) department / section chief / section head / secretary / minister / CL: 個|个, ,
HSK 3
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  *部* | 部* | *部
ministry / department / section / part / division / troops / board / classifier for works of literature, films, machines etc
HSK 3
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  *處* | 處* | *處
(bound form) place; locality / (bound form) part; aspect / (bound form) office; department; bureau / classifier for locations: spot, point
HSK 4
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  *廳* | 廳* | *廳
(reception) hall / living room / office / provincial government department
HSK 5
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  *股* | 股* | *股
thigh / part of a whole; portion of a sum / (finance) stock; share / strand of a thread / low-level administrative unit, translated as "section" or "department" etc, ranked below / classifier for long winding things like ropes, rivers etc / classifier for smoke, smells etc: thread, puff, whiff / classifier for bands of people, gangs etc / classifier for sudden forceful actions
HSK 6
shopping center / department store
HSK 6
to establish (a unit or department) / staffing structure (excluding temporary and casual staff)
HSK 6
department head / section chief
HSK 6
to give or receive urgent medical treatment / emergency treatment (at a hospital emergency department or from a doctor on a house call)
HSK 7-9
Réunion (island in Indian Ocean, a French overseas department)
Réunion (island in Indian Ocean, a French overseas department) (Tw)
(military) General Political Department
department store
Tax Bureau / Inland Revenue Department (Hong Kong)
police station / police department / police headquarters
Defense Department / Ministry of National Defense
health bureau (or office, or department, or agency)
police department / police station / abbr. of 警察局
maternity department / maternity ward / obstetrics
department
department store
fire brigade / fire department
(PRC) State Council / (USA) State Department
Department of Transportation; (PRC) Ministry of Transport
(department of) ophthalmology
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  *曹* | 曹* | *曹
class or grade / generation / plaintiff and defendant (old) / government department (old)
to advance to a higher-level position; to be promoted to a higher position in a new department
Ministry of Justice (PRC etc) / Justice Department (USA etc)
pediatrics / pediatric (department) / sth of little importance / trifle / a child's play / (slang) childish / petty / stingy
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  *司* | 司* | *司
to take charge of / to manage / department (under a ministry)
standard / one's own department or unit
person in charge of a (section or department) / head / chief / director / (in a class in a school) student responsible for a specific duty, e.g. 風紀股長|风纪股长 discipline monitor
bazaar / department store / general store
Propaganda Department
kiosk / snack counter / retail department or section inside a larger business
head of provincial PRC government department
to dissolve (a department etc); to eliminate (positions)
retail department / section of a retail store
political division / cadre department
to return to one's original trade / to put (a business etc) under the administration of the relevant central authority / (the) relevant (department in charge of sth)
department / administrative division / unit (e.g. intensive care unit)
to change major (at college) / to take up a new specialist subject / to transfer to a different medical department
(military) General Logistics Department
Alsace, French department
neurology department
section chief (of an administrative unit) / head (of a department)
Isetan, Japanese department store
fire department
department store
Ministry of Agriculture / Department of Agriculture
Physical Education department
Department of Justice (Hong Kong)
Department of Trade / Department of Commerce
anglophone / English department
administrative department / administration / executive (government branch)
concierge department of a hotel or resort
to enroll without declaring one's major or department (in one's first year(s) of university)
human resources department
Minister of Education / Director of Education Department
US Department of State
intensive care department (of hospital)
Liu Yunshan (1947-), PRC politician, background in journalism in Inner Mongolia, head of the Central Propaganda Department 2002-2012
(US) Department of Homeland Security
Propaganda Department of the Communist Party of China
inpatient department
Imperial Household Department (in Qing dynasty)
(Tw) (of multiple institutions, departments or organizations) to jointly recruit; to jointly appoint (sb)
United Front Work Department of CCP Central Committee (UFWD) / abbr. for 統一戰線工作部|统一战线工作部
(government) department
Propaganda Department of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China
Organization Department of the Communist Party of China Central Committee, which oversees appointments of Party members to official positions throughout China / abbr. to 中組部|中组部
(CCP) Organization Department (abbr. for 中共中央組織部|中共中央组织部)
auditing department; accounting department; comptroller office
department of transport
department of chemistry
Domestic Security Protection Bureau, the department of the Ministry of Public Security responsible for political security, monitoring dissidents, religious groups and activities deemed a threat to state stability
Department of Homeland Security (DHS)
Foreign Affairs Office (at a university) / Foreign Affairs Department
department of foreign languages / modern languages (college department)
super-ministry system (reform aimed at streamlining government department functions)
department of gynecology and obstetrics / birth clinic
CCP central committee's external affairs department (i.e. Chinese communist party's foreign office)
information services department
(provincial) department of education
propaganda department
Lotus (department store chain)
selfish departmentalism / departmental selfishness
provincial department of civil affairs
Marine Department (Hong Kong)
(provincial) department of environmental protection
head of a (university) department; department chair
United Front Work Department of CCP Central Committee (UFWD)
General Armaments Department (GAD)
US Department of Energy (DOE)

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