guān

  1. guān noun an office
    Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
    Notes: In the sense of a place of official business (Guoyu '官' n 2; Kroll 2015 '官' 1)
  2. guān noun an official; a government official
    Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
    Notes: (Guoyu '官' n 1; Kroll 2015 '官' 1b; NCCED '官' 1; Xie 2013, p. 1)
  3. guān adjective official; state-run
    Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
    Notes: In the sense of 国家的 (guoyu '官' adj; NCCED '官' 2)
  4. guān noun an official body; a state organization; bureau
    Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
    Notes: In the sense of a government official (Kroll 2015 '官' 1a)
  5. guān noun an official rank; an official title
    Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
    Notes: In the sense of 职位 or 官职 (Guoyu '官' n 3; Kroll 2015 '官' 3)
  6. guān noun governance
    Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
    Notes: In the sense of a title in the imperial bureaucracy (Kroll 2015 '官' 4)
  7. guān noun a sense organ
    Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
    Notes: Eyes, ears, mouth, nose, and mind (Kroll 2015 '官' 5)
  8. guān noun office
    Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语 , Subdomain: Taoism
    Notes: For example, 三官 'three offices' of Heaven, Earth, and Water (Kroll 2015 '官' 6)
  9. guān adjective public
    Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
    Notes: (NCCED '官' 3)
  10. guān noun an organ
    Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
    Notes: Of biological organism (guoyu '官' n 5; NCCED '官' 4)
  11. guān noun a polite form of address
    Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
    Notes: (guoyu '官' n 4)
  12. guān proper noun Guan
    Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语 , Subdomain: Names , Concept: Surname 姓氏
    Notes: (guoyu '官' n 5)
  13. guān verb to appoint
    Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
    Notes: To an offcial position, in the sense of 任命 or 授职 (guoyu '官' v 1)
  14. guān verb to hold a post
    Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
    Notes: In the sense of 任职 (guoyu '官' v 2)

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