Cojak

Hanzi Character Search: 衙

8859

 
public office; official residence
Radical
Strokes (without radical) 7 Total Strokes 13
Mandarin reading Cantonese reading ngaa4
Japanese on reading gyo go ga Japanese kun reading yakusho
Korean reading a Vietnamese reading

CEDICT Entries:

   [ ]    surname Ya
   [ ]    office, yamen 衙門|衙门
   [ neì ]    child of an official, palace bodyguard
   [ neì ]    child of an official, palace bodyguard
   [ ]    bailiff of feudal yamen
   [ shǔ ]    government office in feudal China, yamen
   [ men ]    government office in feudal China, yamen
   [ men ]    government office in feudal China, yamen
⇒    [ zǒng men ]    the Qing dynasty equivalent of the Foreign Office
⇒    [ zǒng men ]    the Qing dynasty equivalent of the Foreign Office
⇒    [ tiě de men liú shuǐ de guān ]    lit. the yamen is strong as iron, the officials flow like water (idiom), fig. government officials come and go
⇒    [ tiě de 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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