(guān) - official, officer, organ (of the body) in Mandarin
guānTraditional: 官
Translation
official, officer, organ (of the body)
Word origin
Originally depicting a building under a roof 宀 (mián) where state affairs were managed, the character came to mean a government office and then the official who holds it.
- Origin
- ideograph
- Root
- 宀 (mián, roof) over a sign for a managed building
Stroke order
官
Examples
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His father is a high-ranking official.
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This man has held office for many years.
判。
The judge announced the verdict.
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The eyes are an important sense organ.
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He wanted to become an official from a young age.
官 (guān) means an official or officer, a person holding government office, and also forms words for bodily organs such as 器官. It appears in many compounds like 官员 (official) and 法官 (judge).
Where this fits
Appears in 3 words
Multi-character compounds in the corpus that contain 官.
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