官人

Chinese

		official; government; organ of body	man; person; people
simp. and trad. (官人)		官	人

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): guānrén

  (Zhuyin): ㄍㄨㄢ ㄖㄣˊ

• Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): koaⁿ--lâng

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: guānrén
    • Zhuyin: ㄍㄨㄢ ㄖㄣˊ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: guanrén
    • Wade–Giles: kuan¹-jên²
    • Yale: gwān-rén
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: guanren
    • Palladius: гуаньжэнь (guanʹžɛnʹ)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ku̯än⁵⁵ ʐən³⁵/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: koaⁿ--lâng
    • Tâi-lô: kuann--lâng

Verb

官人

1. (archaic) to confer the title and position of an official

Noun

(deprecated template usage) 官人

1. (archaic) official
2. (archaic) runner in a government office
3. (archaic) (form of address used between men)
4. (archaic) (term used by servants to address their masters)
5. (term used by wives to address their husbands)

Usage notes

The last sense - term used by wives to address their husbands - is the only sense still in use in modern Mandarin.

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Japanese

Kanji in this term
官	人
かん Grade: 4	じん Grade: 1
on'yomi

Noun

官(かん)人(じん) • (kanjin) 

1. (obsolete) low-ranking government official
2. (obsolete) public servant