guān

Traditional: 官

#5119 of 5,000 Core 5000

Translation

official; officer (bound morpheme)

Stroke order

Stroke order for 官

Examples

Sir, we are ready.

kǒuzhǐhuī

The police officer is directing traffic at the junction.

He wants to be a military officer.

His father is a minor official.

mín

An official should work for the people.

官 (guān) is a bound morpheme for officials and uniformed officers, found in 警官 (jǐng guān) "police officer" and 长官 (zhǎng guān) "commanding officer".

Related words

Appears in 2 words

Multi-character compounds in the corpus that contain 官.

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This word is part of lesson 103.