"衙门" Chinese-English Dictionary

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Chinese Pinyin Translation Actions
衙门 衙門 yá men yamen, government office in dynastic China syn
Chinese Pinyin Translation Actions
总理衙门 總理衙門 zǒng lǐ yá men the Qing dynasty equivalent of the Foreign Office
铁打的衙门,流水的官 鐵打的衙門,流水的官 tiě dǎ de yá men , liú shuǐ de guān lit. the yamen is strong as iron, the officials flow like water (idiom) / fig. government officials come and go

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