央

center / end / to beg / to plead

radical in Chinese characters (Kangxi radical 13), occurring in 用[yong4], 同[tong2], 網|网[wang3] etc, referred to as 同字框[tong2 zi4 kuang4]

see 大夫[dai4 fu5]

Variant of 冂, but the left stroke is 丿, not 丨

big; large; great / older (than another person) / eldest (as in 大姐[da4 jie3]) / greatly; freely; fully / (dialect) father / (dialect) uncle (father's brother)

central / middle / center / central authorities (of a state)

Propaganda Department of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China

party discipline committee

Organization Department of the Communist Party of China Central Committee, which oversees appointments of Party members to official positions throughout China / abbr. to 中組部|中组部[Zhong1 zu3 bu4]

General Office of the Central Committee of the CCP, responsible for technical and logistical matters relating to the Central Committee / abbr. to 中辦|中办[Zhong1 Ban4]

China Central Television (CCTV), PRC state TV network

Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, abbr. to 中共中央[Zhong1 Gong4 Zhong1 yang1]

Propaganda Department of the Communist Party of China

Liaison Office of the Central People's Government in the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region

centralized autocratic rule

Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, abbr. for 中國共產黨中央委員會|中国共产党中央委员会[Zhong1 guo2 Gong4 chan3 dang3 Zhong1 yang1 Wei3 yuan2 hui4]