衙门

衙門
yámen
yamen, government office in dynastic China

CEDICT

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

Wiktionary

  1. 唐代皇宫前殿的大门
  2. 旧时官吏办公、办事的地方
  3. 办公室；局

維基詞典

Entry Composition

1 衙 yá
  1. office
  2. yamen 衙门
2 门 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

总理衙门 zǒnglǐyámen the Qing dynasty equivalent of the Foreign Office
铁打的衙门，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
巴厘满衙门 bālímǎnyámén