机关

mechanism; gear / machine-operated / office; agency; organ; organization; establishment; institution; body / stratagem; scheme; intrigue; plot; trick / CL:個|个[ge4]

(bound form) machine; mechanism / (bound form) aircraft / (bound form) an opportunity / (bound form) crucial point; pivot / (bound form) quick-witted; flexible / (bound form) organic

mountain pass / to close; to shut; to turn off / to confine; to lock (sb) up; to shut (sb in a room, a bird in a cage etc) / to concern; to involve

machine gun / also written 機槍|机枪[ji1 qiang1]

public security bureau

civil service

judicial authorities

government (viewed as an organization) / institutions of government / government office

official (government-operated) newspaper

machine-operated stage scenery

machine cannon / machine-gun cannon

if one is too calculating, it will be the cause of one's own undoing (famous line in "A Dream of Red Mansions" 紅樓夢|红楼梦[Hong2 lou2 Meng4])

locomotive

legislature

governing body of an autonomous territory

administrative authority / branch of government

the press / the media

to see through a trick

also written 輕機槍|轻机枪 / light machine gun

also written 重機槍|重机枪 / heavy machine gun

(Communist) Party and government organizations

the agency in charge of (e.g. a program); the relevant government body

the authorities / higher competent body