官 guān
noun
: mandarin; official; organ of the body
つかさ tsukasa
Noun
: office; official
: chief; head
公 | おおやけ
No-adjective
: official; public; formal; open; governmental
かん kan
noun
: government service; the bureaucracy
官員[员] guan1yuan2: official (in an organization or government); administrator
[かんいん kanin: government official]
官位 guan1wei4: official post [かんい kani: office and rank; an official rank]
官方 guan1fang1: government; official (relating to a government office)
官僚 guan1liao2: bureaucrat; bureaucracy; bureaucratic
[かんりょう kanrou]
官僚主義[官僚主义] guan1liao2 zhu3yi4: bureaucracy
官司 guan1si: lawsuit
[かんし kanshi: government office/official; public office]
官話[话] guan1hua4: Mandarin language; officialese
軍[军]官 jun1’guan1: officer (military)
[軍官憲 | ぐんかんけん gunkanken: military authorities]
法官 fa3guan1: judge [ほうかん houkan]
教官 jiao4guan1: military instructor
[きょうかん kyoukan: teacher; instructor; professor]
長官 zhang3guan1: senior / commanding officer
[ちょうかん choukan: secretary (government); director; chief]
五官 wu3guan1: the five senses (ears. eyes, lips, nose, tongue)
[ごかん gokan]
器官 qi4guan1: organ (part of body tissue); apparatus
[きかん kinkan]
外交官 wai4 jiao1 guan1: diplomat [がいこうかん gaikoukan]
Japanese expression / idiom
器官なき身体 | きかんなきしんたい kikan na ki shintai
: body without organs (philosophical concept)
勝てば官軍負ければ賊軍 | かてばかんぐんまければぞくぐん kate wa kangun makereba zokugun
: Losers are always in the wrong
Chinese idiom /proverb
官報[报]私仇 guan1 bao4 si1 chou2
: to take advantage of official post for personal revenge
升官發財[发财] sheng1 guan1 fa1 cai2
: to be promoted and gain wealth
貪[贪]官污吏 tan1 guan1 wu1 li4
: grasping officials, corrupt mandarins: abuse and corruption
[どんかんおり don kan ori OR たんかんおり tan kan ori: corrupt government official]
清官難斷家務事 qing1 guan1 nan2 duan4 jia1 wu4 shi4
: even an honest and upright official will have difficulty resolving a family dispute
会意 Associative Compound.
Government of roomfuls of people 㠯 (yi3: according to)
under one roof 宀 (mian2: roof)
some scholars say this was once a picture of many people under a roof: “the people’s roof”
Examples:
那個外交官很胖。
na4ge wai4jiao1guan1 hen3 pang4.
That diplomat is very fat.
Resources: Chinese Dictionary | Japanese Dictionary
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