surname Guan
government official / governmental / official / public / organ of the body / CL:個|个[ge4]

= + : Mnemonic symbol: to symbolize the bureaucracy involved in every governmental system I'll use a folder.

= + : Gitta Giraffe just graduated from anthill, and standing in front of it, still wearing her graduation cap, she's ready to assume her post as government official. She already has a folder under each arm and is wearing big safety glasses (be safe at work!).

官 character breakdown

old variant of 以[yi3]

= + : Mnemonic symbol: 㠯 looks like a cool pair of safety goggles.

A ghost (尸) has been hiding from Maud Younger (Ø3) in a mandarin (口). Maud finds the mandarin in the space station's living room (Ø3) and squeezes the ghost out, and in order to (㠯) be protected from the mandarin juice flying all around in zero gravity she is wearing safety goggles (㠯).
"roof" radical (Kangxi radical 40), occurring in 家, 定, 安 etc, referred to as 寶蓋|宝盖[bao3 gai4]

= + : Mnemonic symbol: the strokes of this character look like a graduation cap (宀). Marilyn Monroe (mi-) wants to go to the anthill after her graduation from university. In the anthill's kitchen (an2), her friends snatch away her graduation cap (宀), and instead put a cooking top (冖) and a petal leaf (丶) on her head.

Characters with 官 as component

variant of 館|馆[guan3]

= + : Gitta Giraffe (gu) just borrowed some folders (官) from the small library (馆; from 图书馆) inside of the anthill (an3). She is very annoyed to find that the folders have been messed up with Chinese crullers (饣).
building / shop / term for certain service establishments / embassy or consulate / schoolroom (old) / CL:家[jia1]

= + : Gitta Giraffe (gu) just borrowed some folders (官) from the small library (馆; from 图书馆) inside of the anthill (an3). She is very annoyed to find that the folders have been messed up with Chinese crullers (饣).
surname Guan

= + : As a government offficial, Gitta Giraffe is checking the books of the anthill inside of it. She has to check many many folders, and to protect herself and her work, she's beating anyone who gets too close with a bamboo stick.
variant of 管[guan3]

= + : As a government offficial, Gitta Giraffe is checking the books of the anthill inside of it. She has to check many many folders, and to protect herself and her work, she's beating anyone who gets too close with a bamboo stick.
to take care (of) / to control / to manage / to be in charge of / to look after / to run / to care about / tube / pipe / woodwind / classifier for tube-shaped objects / particle similar to 把[ba3] in 管...叫 constructions / writing brush / (coll.) to / towards

= + : As a government offficial, Gitta Giraffe is checking the books of the anthill inside of it. She has to check many many folders, and to protect herself and her work, she's beating anyone who gets too close with a bamboo stick.
coffin
(grass) / Themeda forsbali
mus. instr. / to polish jade or gold

Words with 官

five sense organs of TCM (nose, eyes, lips, tongue, ears 鼻目口舌耳) / facial features
the three gods in charge of heaven, earth and water (Daoism)
lit. it is not an official to be feared, but a person in direct control over sb (proverb) / fig. to be obliged to comply with people in authority
(of an official) to lose one's job
hill myna / Indian grackle / Gracula religiosa

Sentences with 官