公使

minister / diplomat performing ambassadorial role in Qing times, before regular diplomatic relations

public / collectively owned / common / international (e.g. high seas, metric system, calendar) / make public / fair / just / Duke, highest of five orders of nobility 五等爵位[wu3 deng3 jue2 wei4] / honorable (gentlemen) / father-in-law / male (animal)

to make / to cause / to enable / to use / to employ / to send / to instruct sb to do sth / envoy / messenger

embassy (old term) / foreign mission