office / yamen 衙門|衙门
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surname Ya
yamen, government office in dynastic China
child of an official / palace bodyguard
bailiff of feudal yamen
government office in feudal China / yamen
the Qing dynasty equivalent of the Foreign Office
lit. the yamen is strong as iron, the officials flow like water (idiom) / fig. government officials come and go
Definitions from CC-CEDICT · 125,326 source records · Release 2026-10-27