稗官

bàiguān
  1. (old) petty official charged with reporting back to the ruler on what people in a locality are talking about
  2. novel in the vernacular
  3. fiction writer; novelist

CEDICT

old

Entry Composition

=1 稗 bài
  1. barnyard millet (Echinochloa crus-galli)
  2. Panicum crus-galli
  3. (literary) insignificant
  4. trivial
=1 稗 bài
  1. polished rice
  2. old variant of 稗 bài
2 官 guān
  1. government official
  2. governmental
  3. official
  4. public
  5. organ of the body

classifier: 個