衙署
yá shǔ
Pinyin

Definition

衙署
 - 
yá shǔ
  1. government office in feudal China
  2. yamen

Character Decomposition

Related Words (20)

签署
qiān shǔ
  1. 1 to sign (an agreement)
署名
shǔ míng
  1. 1 to sign (a signature)
部署
bù shǔ
  1. 1 to dispose
  2. 2 to deploy
  3. 3 deployment
公署
gōng shǔ
  1. 1 government office
审计署
shěn jì shǔ
  1. 1 audit office
  2. 2 public accounts committee
总署
zǒng shǔ
  1. 1 general office
署
shǔ
  1. 1 office
  2. 2 bureau
  3. 3 to sign
  4. 4 to arrange
衙门
yá men
  1. 1 government office in feudal China
  2. 2 yamen
警署
jǐng shǔ
  1. 1 police station (abbr. for 警察署[jǐng chá shǔ])
地检署
dì jiǎn shǔ
  1. 1 district prosecutor's office
布署
bù shǔ
  1. 1 variant of 部署[bù shǔ]
联署
lián shǔ
  1. 1 joint signatures (on a letter or declaration)
行署
xíng shǔ
  1. 1 administrative office
衙内
yá nèi
  1. 1 child of an official
  2. 2 palace bodyguard
衙役
yá yì
  1. 1 bailiff of feudal yamen
衙署
yá shǔ
  1. 1 government office in feudal China
  2. 2 yamen
卫生署
wèi shēng shǔ
  1. 1 health bureau (or office, or department, or agency)
警察署
jǐng chá shǔ
  1. 1 police station
警政署
Jǐng zhèng shǔ
  1. 1 National Police Agency (Taiwan)
  2. 2 abbr. for 內政部警政署|内政部警政署[Nèi zhèng bù Jǐng zhèng shǔ]
连署
lián shǔ
  1. 1 to cosign
  2. 2 to countersign

Idioms (1)

铁打的衙门，流水的官
tiě dǎ de yá men , liú shuǐ de guān
  1. 1 lit. the yamen is strong as iron, the officials flow like water (idiom)
  2. 2 fig. government officials come and go

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