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guān
HSK 4freq #1825

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guān
  1. 1.government official
  2. 2.governmental
  3. 3.official
  4. 4.public
  5. 5.organ of the body
  6. 6.CL:个[gè]
Guān
  1. 1.surname Guan

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Wiktionary

  1. 1.government official, public servant
  2. 2.governmental; official
  3. 3.public; communal
  4. 4.organ (part of a body)
  5. 5.father-in-law; husband's father
  6. 6.a surname

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Etymology

Compositionally related to 宮, but approximately analysable as ideogrammic compound (會意 /会意): 宀 + 𠂤 – multiple rooms under a roof, an official building. Probably the same word as 倌 (OC *koːn, *kroːns, “servant”) (Schuessler, 2007). See there for more.

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