僚佐

Chinese

		bureaucrat	assist
simp. and trad. (僚佐)		僚	佐

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): liáozuǒ

  (Zhuyin): ㄌㄧㄠˊ ㄗㄨㄛˇ

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: liáozuǒ
    • Zhuyin: ㄌㄧㄠˊ ㄗㄨㄛˇ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: liáozuǒ
    • Wade–Giles: liao²-tso³
    • Yale: lyáu-dzwǒ
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: liautzuoo
    • Palladius: ляоцзо (ljaoczo)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /li̯ɑʊ̯³⁵ t͡su̯ɔ²¹⁴⁻²¹⁽⁴⁾/

Noun

(deprecated template usage) 僚佐

1. (historical) assistants in a government office

   • 於是知事及其僚佐們的荷包，只好空著。 [MSC, trad.]
     于是知事及其僚佐们的荷包，只好空着。 [MSC, simp.]

     From: 1927, 毛澤東 (Mao Zedong), 《湖南農民運動考察報告》 (Report on an Investigation of the Peasant Movement in Hunan), 《毛澤東選集》. English translation based on the Foreign Languages Press edition

     Yúshì zhīshì jí qí liáozuǒmen de hébāo, zhǐhǎo kōngzhe. [Pinyin]

     So it is that the purses of the magistrates and their underlings perforce remain empty.