"officialese" / bureaucratic language / Mandarin
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Frequency data: Cai & Brysbaert, SUBTLEX-CH (2010), Creative Commons Attribution. The data includes word forms with at least 10 occurrences in an older subtitle sample. It does not provide current frequency or HSK levels. Absence from the sample does not establish that a word is rare. Names, variants and restricted readings identified in the source appear after general-use entries within the same match type.
government funded / paid by state stipend
government-run / state-run
a government official drives the people to revolt (idiom) / a minister provokes a rebellion by exploiting the people
(of a political career) everything is going smoothly (idiom)
lawsuit (from Cantonese)
legally-traded salt (with salt tax paid)
(idiom) some official position (esp. a low-ranking one)
corporal (army)
the three gods in charge of heaven, earth and water (Daoism)
staff sergeant
high-ranking official / superior
lit. it is not an official to be feared, but a person in direct control over sb (proverb) / fig. to be obliged to comply with people in authority
(of an official) to lose one's job
(Tw) (bird species of China) common hill myna (Gracula religiosa)
sergeant
to have regular features
master sergeant
human organ
ambassador and consul / diplomat
aide-de-camp
guard
to take an official post / to become a government employee
public safety officials
sergeant major
redundant officials
to leave the capital for an official post
to be promoted / additional government post
to confer a title an official position
to receive a promotion / to rise in rank
promotion in official post and salary raise (idiom)
promotion to the nobility (idiom)
promotion in official post and salary raise (idiom)
to confer additional titles on a nobleman
to be promoted and gain wealth (idiom)
semiofficial
only the official is allowed to light the fire / Gods may do what cattle may not / quod licet Iovi, non licet bovi
scribe / court recorder / historian / historiographer
(Tw) judges and prosecutors
to face legal action / to get sued
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