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衙门

government office in feudal China / yamen

Characters and words in 衙门

office / yamen 衙門|衙门
gate / door / CL:扇[shan4] / gateway / doorway / CL:個|个[ge4] / opening / valve / switch / way to do something / knack / family / house / (religious) sect / school (of thought) / class / category / phylum or division (taxonomy) / classifier for large guns / classifier for lessons, subjects, branches of technology / (suffix) -gate (i.e. scandal; derived from Watergate)

Mahatma Gandhi wants his revenge on the Chinese emperor! Like a spider he sits in the upper left corner of the encampment's kitchen, ready to strike with the trap door he installed in the floor.

Words with 衙门

the Qing dynasty equivalent of the Foreign Office
lit. the yamen is strong as iron, the officials flow like water (idiom) / fig. government officials come and go

Sentences with 衙门

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