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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
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *官* | 官* | *官
government official / governmental / official / public / organ of the body / CL: 個|个
HSK 4
bureaucrat / bureaucracy / bureaucratic
HSK 7-9
official (in an organization or government) / administrator
HSK 7-9
endgame (in go)
health official
authorities / feudal official
Chief Justice
government-run; state-run
(military) officers and soldiers / officers and men / (old) government troops
HSK 7-9
sense / sense organ
to confer additional titles on a nobleman
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
official website (abbr. for 官方網站|官方网站)
civil and military officials
bureaucracy
HSK 7-9
chief information officer (CIO)
chief executive officer (CEO)
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)
to have regular features
to be promoted and gain wealth (idiom)
sense organs / the five senses
scribe / court recorder / historian / historiographer
local official
Battle of Guandu of 199 that established Cao Cao's 曹操 domination over north China, at Guandu (near modern 許昌|许昌 in north Henan)
warrant officer / petty officer / noncommissioned officer (NCO) / Japanese military officer
name of job in Imperial bureaucracy / official position
court eunuch
human organ
magistrate (during Tang and Song dynasties) / mythological underworld judge
Southwestern Mandarin, dialect group of Mandarin spoken primarily in southwestern China
official media / state media / (abbr. for 官方媒體|官方媒体)
commander / officer in charge
"officialese" / bureaucratic language / Mandarin
constable; police officer
HSK 7-9
fake important personage / sham
public safety officials
public prosecutor; public procurator (judicial officer whose job may involve both criminal investigation and public prosecution)
functional group (chemistry)
corporal (army)
children of officials / word created by analogy with 富二代
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
neurosis
chief executive / magistrate
organoid (regenerative medicine)
chief operating officer (COO)
high post and generous salary (idiom); promotion to a high official position
(of an official) to lose one's job
to take advantage of official post for personal revenge (idiom)
(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
petty official / minor functionary
to seek a government post through bribery or connections
to face legal action; to get sued
an official position / a job in the bureaucracy
officer (military)
HSK 7-9
grasping officials, corrupt mandarins (idiom); abuse and corruption
(derog.) bureaucracy / red tape
official language
if an official does not put the people first, he might as well go home and sell sweet potatoes
grand justice / high court justice / supreme court justice
emperor / government / official
sexual organ
to confer a title an official position
traitor minister and corrupt official (idiom); abuse and corruption
government employee
consumer protection officer (Tw)
military instructor
(of a newly appointed official) to make bold changes on assuming office (idiom)
title / official rank
family of a functionary (i.e. educated middle class in Qing times)
putting on official airs
rules of propriety for government officials
promotion to the nobility (idiom)
semiofficial
functional group (chemistry)
judge / magistrate
the three gods in charge of heaven, earth and water (Daoism)
staff sergeant
a treacherous official / a mandarin who conspires against the state
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *官* | 官* | *官
surname Guan
Guandu district of Kunming city 昆明市, Yunnan
croupier; dealer
imperial censor
grasping officials, corrupt mandarins (idiom); abuse and corruption
quartermaster
Hai Rui dismissed from office, 1960 historical play by historian Wu Han 吳晗|吴晗

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