衙門

衙门
yámen
yamen, government office in dynastic China

CEDICT

  1. (Dungan) office; bureau
  2. (historical) yamen
  3. office; bureau
  4. yamen

Wiktionary

  1. 唐代皇宮前殿的大門
  2. 舊時官吏辦公、辦事的地方
  3. 辦公室；局

維基詞典

Entry Composition

1 衙 yá
  1. office
  2. yamen 衙門
2 門 mén
  1. gate
  2. door
  3. gateway
  4. doorway
  5. opening
  6. valve
  7. switch
  8. way to do something
  9. knack
  10. family
  11. house
  12. (religious) sect
  13. school (of thought)
  14. class
  15. category
  16. phylum or division (taxonomy)
  17. classifier for large guns
  18. classifier for lessons, subjects, branches of technology
  19. (suffix) -gate (i.e. scandal; derived from Watergate)

classifiers: 扇, 個

Containing this entry

總理衙門 zǒnglǐyámen the Qing dynasty equivalent of the Foreign Office
鐵打的衙門，流水的官 tiědǎdeyámen,liúshuǐdeguān
  1. lit. the yamen is strong as iron, the officials flow like water (idiom)
  2. fig. government officials come and go
巴厘滿衙門 bālímǎnyámén