官 (gun1 | guan1) : government official

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官

gun1

guan1

[1] government official; officer; office holder [2] [adj] official; state-owned; government-run [3] public; general [4] organ (biology) [5] a Chinese family name

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Stroke count: 8

Level: 2

Radical: 宀 (#40)

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

官

Don't confuse with:
宮

This word has been viewed 9225 times since 30th Oct 2012, was added by sheik on 18th Mar 2007 21:22 and last edited on 14th Jul 2009 03:38

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高官 gou1 gun1 gao1 guan1 = high-ranking official

打官司 daa2 gun1 si1 da3 guan1 si5 = to go to court; to bring a lawsuit

官地 gun1 dei6 guan1 di4 = government land

器官 hei3 gun1 qi4 guan1 = a body organ

五官 ng5 gun1 wu3 guan1 = five sensory organs; facial features

軍官 gwan1 gun1 jun1 guan1 = military officer

官司 gun1 si1 guan1 si5 = lawsuit

官員 gun1 jyun4 guan1 yuan2 = government official

官僚 gun1 liu4 = bureaucrat

官僚主義 gun1 liu4 zyu2 ji6 = bureaucracy
See all 102 compounds (CantoDict reports 107 compounds in total, but some may be Common Formations)

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我過咗年就要做個量地官囉粵
I'll be out of a job after the new year.

陳仔近排當黑﹐冇咗份工兼且輸埋官司。粵
Chan was lately down on his luck, losing both his job and the court case.
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Decimal representation of this word: 官
Unicode code for this character: U+5b98 (off-site link)

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