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HSK
(physiology) organ; apparatus
HSK 4
diplomat
HSK 4
government / official (approved or issued by an authority)
HSK 4
lawsuit / CL: 場|场
HSK 6
judge (in court)
HSK 4
to file a lawsuit / to sue / to dispute
HSK 6
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government official / governmental / official / public / organ of the body / CL: 個|个
HSK 4
official (in an organization or government) / administrator
HSK 7-9
human organ
bureaucrat / bureaucracy / bureaucratic
HSK 7-9
only the official is allowed to light the fire / Gods may do what cattle may not / quod licet Iovi, non licet bovi
endgame (in go)
authorities / feudal official
Chief Justice
chief executive officer (CEO)
restored to one's official post / to send sb back to his former post
(military) officers and soldiers / officers and men / (old) government troops
HSK 7-9
sense / sense organ
officer (military)
HSK 7-9
bureaucracy
HSK 7-9
an official position / a job in the bureaucracy
official language
aide-de-camp
final part of a go game (see 官子) / endgame / to finish up / to come to the final stage
to take an official post / to become a government employee
to get promoted
two-character surname Shangguan
high-ranking official / superior
lit. it is not an official to be feared, but a person in direct control over sb (proverb) / fig. to be obliged to comply with people in authority
chief technology officer (CTO)
officialdom / bureaucracy
commander
to confer a title an official position
civil and military officials
public prosecutor; public procurator (judicial officer whose job may involve both criminal investigation and public prosecution)
government employee
senior official / senior officer / commanding officer / CL: / sir (term of address for senior officer)
chief information officer (CIO)
technocrat
five sense organs of TCM (nose, eyes, lips, tongue, ears 鼻目口舌耳) / facial features
(polite appellation for a guest at a hotel etc)
general
"officialese" / bureaucratic language / Mandarin
to have regular features
even an honest and upright official will have difficulty resolving a family dispute (proverb)
judge / magistrate
official manner
corporal (army)
scribe / court recorder / historian / historiographer
nickname for official
if an official does not put the people first, he might as well go home and sell sweet potatoes
corrupt official / grasping functionary / greedy mandarin
grasping officials, corrupt mandarins (idiom); abuse and corruption
local official
aide-de-camp
public safety officials
warrant officer / petty officer / noncommissioned officer (NCO) / Japanese military officer
to grant government positions in exchange for bribes
name of job in Imperial bureaucracy / official position
district magistrate / county magistrate
court eunuch
(of an official) to lose one's job
magistrate (during Tang and Song dynasties) / mythological underworld judge
secretary of state (esp. historical, or Japanese or Korean usage)
(chemistry) functional group
clerk of a law court
(Tw) (bird species of China) common hill myna (Gracula religiosa)
official media / state media / (abbr. for 官方媒體|官方媒体)
commander / officer in charge
(old) cabin class; second class (on a passenger ship)
government funded / paid by state stipend
(derog.) bureaucracy / red tape
constable; police officer
HSK 7-9
fake important personage / sham
to buy an official title; to use wealth to acquire office
high post and generous salary (idiom); promotion to a high official position
children of officials / word created by analogy with 富二代
officials shield one another (idiom); a cover-up
official business / government workmen / odd-job men
Chinese cinnamon (Cinnamomum cassia) / also written 肉桂
a government official drives the people to revolt (idiom); a minister provokes a rebellion by exploiting the people
(old) petty official charged with reporting back to the ruler on what people in a locality are talking about / novel in the vernacular / fiction writer; novelist
interviewer
to take advantage of official post for personal revenge (idiom)
title / official rank
petty official / minor functionary
buying and selling of official positions
to seek a government post through bribery or connections
to face legal action; to get sued
coroner
sergeant
(idiom) to grant government positions or official titles in exchange for bribes
master sergeant
guard
grand justice / high court justice / supreme court justice
emperor / government / official
sexual organ
Southwestern Mandarin, dialect group of Mandarin spoken primarily in southwestern China
traitor minister and corrupt official (idiom); abuse and corruption
Guandu district of Kunming city 昆明市, Yunnan

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