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HSK
(physiology) organ; apparatus
HSK 4
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *官* | 官* | *官
government official / governmental / official / public / organ of the body / CL: 個|个
HSK 4
government / official (approved or issued by an authority)
HSK 4
judge (in court)
HSK 4
diplomat
HSK 4
lawsuit / CL: 場|场
HSK 6
to file a lawsuit / to sue / to dispute
HSK 6
bureaucrat / official
HSK 7-9
official (in an organization or government) / administrator
HSK 7-9
officer (military)
HSK 7-9
constable; police officer
HSK 7-9
(military) officers and soldiers / officers and men / (old) government troops
HSK 7-9
bureaucracy
HSK 7-9
bureaucrat / bureaucracy / bureaucratic
HSK 7-9
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *官* | 官* | *官
surname Guan
sense / sense organ
officialdom / bureaucracy
commander / officer in charge
public prosecutor; public procurator (judicial officer whose job may involve both criminal investigation and public prosecution)
neurosis
commander
five sense organs of TCM (nose, eyes, lips, tongue, ears 鼻目口舌耳) / facial features
official rank
grand justice / high court justice / supreme court justice
senior official / senior officer / commanding officer / CL: / sir (term of address for senior officer)
sense organs / the five senses
high official
magistrate (during Tang and Song dynasties) / mythological underworld judge
authorities / feudal official
clerk of a law court
family of a functionary (i.e. educated middle class in Qing times)
Guantian, the name of townships in various locations / Guantian, a district in Tainan 台南, Taiwan
"officialese" / bureaucratic language / Mandarin
two-character surname Shangguan
high-ranking official / superior
official media / state media / (abbr. for 官方媒體|官方媒体)
(Tw) judges and prosecutors
an official position / a job in the bureaucracy
court eunuch
official in charge of medical affairs / respectful title for a doctor
corrupt official / grasping functionary / greedy mandarin
aide-de-camp
to resign a government post
sexual organ
high official and noble persons (idiom); the great and the good
to be promoted and gain wealth (idiom)
(of a political career) everything is going smoothly (idiom)
district magistrate / county magistrate
high-ranking official
to dismiss from office / to resign from office
grasping officials, corrupt mandarins (idiom); abuse and corruption
general
to buy an official title; to use wealth to acquire office
officials shield one another (idiom); a cover-up
bridegroom; groom
high post and generous salary (idiom); promotion to a high official position
promotion to the nobility (idiom)
(old) to report sth to the authorities
(of a newly appointed official) to make bold changes on assuming office (idiom)
even an honest and upright official will have difficulty resolving a family dispute (proverb)
title / official rank
to demote an official / a demoted official
to face legal action; to get sued
emperor / government / official
official price
government-run; state-run
rules of propriety for government officials
Chinese constellations
putting on official airs
to talk officiously / to assume the air of a functionary / to talk in official jargon
imperial censor
to confer a title an official position
to get promoted
school or academic institution (old)
to leave the capital for an official post
military instructor
judge / magistrate
restored to one's official post / to send sb back to his former post
the civil service system / the bureaucratic system
redundant officials
to grant government positions in exchange for bribes
official institution / state bureau
(idiom) to grant government positions or official titles in exchange for bribes
nickname for official
to offer official positions and material benefits in order to buy people's allegiance
salaries of government officials
functional group (chemistry)
petty official / minor functionary
Guandu district of Kunming city 昆明市, Yunnan
high ranking
military official / military attaché
scribe / court recorder / historian / historiographer
(Tw) (bird species of China) common hill myna (Gracula religiosa)
name of job in Imperial bureaucracy / official position
legally-traded salt (with salt tax paid)
official manner
an examiner / an official conducting an exam
(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
vocal organs / vocal cords
a government official drives the people to revolt (idiom); a minister provokes a rebellion by exploiting the people

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