(jiǎn chá guān) - public prosecutor, prosecuting counsel in Mandarin
jiǎncháguānTraditional: 檢察官
Translation
public prosecutor, prosecuting counsel
Word origin
A compound of 检察 (jiǎn chá, to inspect and prosecute) and 官 (guān, an official), so the official who examines a case and brings it.
- Origin
- compound
- Root
- 检察 (jiǎn chá, to inspect and prosecute) + 官 (guān, official)
Stroke order
检
察
官
Examples
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The prosecutor is preparing this case.
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She has wanted to be a prosecutor since she was small.
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The prosecutor asked the witness a great many questions.
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The judge and the prosecutor have both arrived.
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The prosecutor said the evidence so far is not enough.
检察官 (jiǎn chá guān) is the public prosecutor, the state official who decides whether a case goes to court and then argues it there. The word turns up constantly in news reports and in every legal drama on Chinese television.
Keep the three legal roles apart, because Chinese does and English often does not. 检察官 prosecutes, 法官 (fǎ guān) judges, and 律师 (lǜ shī) is the lawyer you hire, usually for the defence. English 'attorney' blurs the first and third; Mandarin never will.
The other trap is the near-miss with 检查 (jiǎn chá, to check or examine), which sounds identical in casual speech. The second character differs: 察 for investigating a case, 查 for looking something over. Get it wrong and you have written 'the inspection official', which is a different job entirely.
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