官人

Chinese

		official; government; organ of body	man; person; people
simp. and trad. (官人)		官	人

Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Pinyin): guānrén

(Zhuyin): ㄍㄨㄢㄖㄣˊ
Min Nan (POJ): koaⁿ--lâng

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Pinyin: guānrén
  - Zhuyin: ㄍㄨㄢㄖㄣˊ
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: guanren
  - IPA ^(key): /ku̯än⁵⁵ ʐən³⁵/
Min Nan
- (Hokkien)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: koaⁿ--lâng
  - Tâi-lô: kuann--lâng

Verb

官人

(archaic) to confer the title and position of an official

Noun

官人

(archaic) official
(archaic) runner in a government office
(archaic) (form of address used between men)
(archaic) (term used by servants to address their masters)
(term used by wives to address their husbands)

Usage notes

The last sense - term used by wives to address their husbands - is the only sense still in use in modern Mandarin.

Japanese

Kanji in this term
官	人
かん Grade: 4	じん Grade: 1
on’yomi

Noun

官人 (hiragana かんじん, rōmaji kanjin)

(obsolete) low-ranking government official
(obsolete) public servant

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