官

Stroke order

官 (Kangxi radical 40, 宀+5, 8 strokes, cangjie input 十口中口 (JRLR), four-corner 3077₇, composition ⿱宀㠯)

• 倌, 𠴨, 𪣬, 婠, 𢃙, 悺, 捾, 涫, 𱢍, 棺, 𣨭, 琯, 𦜐, 𮀩, 𰨉, 𥟓, 䘾, 綰(绾), 䗆, 䠉, 輨(𫐑), 錧(𰾒), 𭓚, 舘, 舘, 𩈬, 䩪, 館(馆), 𩸘, 𮮛
• 逭, 𭀲, 𰍛, 𨜌, 𨐝, 𰌰, 𬷡, 𡬮, 悹, 菅, 管, 𩭵, 𨐽, 𢉂, 痯, 䦡, 𢣉

• 宮, 宫
• 追

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 283, character 15
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 7107
• Dae Jaweon: page 558, character 1
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 2, page 921, character 4
• Unihan data for U+5B98

Compositionally related to 宮. Approximately analysable as ideogrammic compound (會意／会意) : 宀 + 𠂤 – multiple rooms under a roof, an official building.

Probably the same word as 倌 (OC *koːn, *kroːns, “servant”) (Schuessler, 2007). See there for more.

官

1. government official, public servant

   官員／官员  ―  guānyuán  ―  official

   做官  ―  zuòguān  ―  to hold an official position

   外交官  ―  wàijiāoguān  ―  diplomat

2. governmental; official

   官辦／官办  ―  guānbàn  ―  government-run; operated by official bodies

   官方  ―  guānfāng  ―  official; authoritative; approved

3. public; communal

   Synonyms: 公 (gōng), 公共 (gōnggòng), 公用 (gōngyòng)

   Antonym: 私 (sī)

4. organ (part of a body)

   Synonym: 器官 (qìguān)

   五官  ―  wǔguān  ―  the five sense organs (ears, eyes, mouth, nose and tongue)

5. a surname

• → English: Guan, Kwan

• Dictionary of Chinese Character Variants (教育部異體字字典), A01015
• (Min Nan) “Entry #3824”, in 教育部臺灣台語常用詞辭典 [Dictionary of Frequently-Used Taiwanese Taigi] (overall work in Mandarin and Hokkien), Ministry of Education, R.O.C., 2024.
• “官”, in 漢語多功能字庫 (Multi-function Chinese Character Database)‎, 香港中文大學 (the Chinese University of Hong Kong), 2014–

(Fourth grade kyōiku kanji)

• Go-on: かん (kan, Jōyō)^{←くわん (kwan, historical)}
• Kan-on: かん (kan, Jōyō)^{←くわん (kwan, historical)}
• Kun: つかさ (tsukasa, 官)、おおやけ (ōyake, 官)

From Middle Chinese 官 (MC kwan).

• (Tokyo) かん (Atamadaka – )^[1]
• IPA^(key):

官(かん) • (kan) ^{←くわん (kwan)?}

1. government office
2. government official
3. official rank; official position
4. public; state-owned (use, facility, etc.)
5. sense organ

官(かん) • (kan) ^{←くわん (kwan)?}

1. government office; authority
2. government official
3. official rank; official position
4. (obsolete) the state; government
5. (obsolete) short for 太(だい)政(じょう)官(かん) (daijōkan).

官 (eumhun 벼슬 관 (byeoseul gwan))

1. hanja form^? of 관 (“government office”)

• 경찰관 (警察官, gyeongchalgwan, “police officer”)
• 소방관 (消防官, sobanggwan, “firefighter”)
• 외교관 (外交官, oegyogwan, “diplomat”)
• 장관 (長官, janggwan, “minister, cabinet secretary”)

官: Hán Nôm readings: quan^{[1][2][3][4][5][6]}

1. a mandarin, an official