局 (guk6 | ju2) : bureau; game; situation; party; trap

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局

guk6

ju2

[1] [n] bureau; office; department
[2] [n] game; set; chessboard
[3] [n] situation; position; state of affairs
[4] [n] party; gathering; get-together
[5] [n] ruse; trap; trick
[6] [n] part; portion; partial
[7] [adj] constrained; confined; narrow

Tone change to guk6*2 is common (but often optional) when 局 is the last syllable of a noun that means "bureau" or "office".

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Stroke count: 7

Level: 1

Radical: 尸 (#44)

This character is used in both Cantonese and Mandarin/Standard written Chinese.

局

This word has been viewed 17034 times since 30th Oct 2012, was added by sheik on 18th Mar 2007 21:22 and last edited on 28th Sep 2013 01:49

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書局 syu1 guk6*2 = bookstore; bookshop

郵局 jau4 guk6*2 you2 ju2 = post office

醫院管理局 ji1 jyun2 gun2 lei5 guk6 = Hospital Authority

金管局 gam1 gun2 guk6 = short for 金融管理局

飯局 faan6 guk6 fan4 ju2 = dinner party; banquet

衛生局 wai6 sang1 guk6 wei4 sheng1 ju2 = public health service

佈局 bou3 guk6 bu4 ju2 = arrangement

局勢 guk6 sai3 ju2 shi4 = situation; state of affairs

局部 guk6 bou6 ju2 bu4 = partly; local

局長 guk6 zoeng2 ju2 zhang3 = bureau chief
See all 103 compounds (CantoDict reports 109 compounds in total, but some may be Common Formations)

Showing all 3 examples containing 局

呢頭有冇郵局呀？粵
Is there a post office in the area?
[Lit. this area have not-have post-office [particle]?]

請問，郵局喺邊度？
May I ask you where the post office is?
[Lit. May I ask, post office at where? Mandarin: 請問,郵局在哪裡?]

我去郵局白行咗一趟。粵
I made a futile trip to the post office.

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Decimal representation of this word: 局
Unicode code for this character: U+5c40 (off-site link)

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