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bureaucrat / official
HSK 7-9
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minor government official or functionary (old)
style of governing (of minor official) / achievement in office
grasping officials, corrupt mandarins (idiom); abuse and corruption
prison guard / jailer (old)
a corrupt official
Ministry of Appointments (in imperial China)
(old) subordinate; underling
low-level government official (in former times)
(literary) former subordinate
acting magistrate / temporary official (in former times)
minor official
traitor minister and corrupt official (idiom); abuse and corruption
minor official / to be an official
corrupt officials
grasping officials, corrupt mandarins (idiom); abuse and corruption


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