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"yamen" Chinese-English Dictionary

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Chinese Pinyin Translation
辕 轅 yuán shafts of cart / yamen
衙署 yá shǔ government office in feudal China / yamen syn
六扇门 六扇門 liù shàn mén seat of the government / yamen / (in wuxia stories) special police force
Chinese Pinyin Translation
喝道 hè dào to shout (i.e. to say in a loud voice) (usually followed by the words shouted) / (old) (of yamen bailiffs etc) to walk ahead of an official, shouting at pedestrians to clear the way syn
公差 gōng chāi official errand / bailiff in a yamen syn
衙役 yá yì bailiff of feudal yamen syn
衙门 衙門 yá men yamen, government office in dynastic China syn
差役 chāi yì forced labor of feudal tenant (corvée) / bailiff of feudal yamen syn
衙 yá office / yamen 衙門|衙门 syn
亚门 亞門 yà mén (biology) subphylum (in zoological taxonomy) / subdivision (in the taxonomy of plants or fungi)
亚们 亞們 yà men Amon (son of Manasseh)
虎头牌 虎頭牌 hǔ tóu pái tiger-head plaque (made of wood and mounted on the front of a yamen 衙門|衙门[ya2men5] during the Qing dynasty as a symbol of authority)
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
The four tones The four tones of Mandarin Pitch over time: tone 1 high and level (red), tone 2 rising (orange), tone 3 falling then rising (green), tone 4 falling (blue). tone 1 tone 2 tone 3 tone 4 Time Pitch

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