guó wù cì qīngdictionary entry
DEFINITION CC-CEDICT
Under Secretary of State
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Original source entry:

國務次卿 国务次卿 [guo2 wu4 ci4 qing1] /Under Secretary of State/

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Other forms in these source records: 國務次卿

  • 国
    guó

    country / nation / state / (bound form) national

    Guó

    surname Guo

  • 务
    wù

    affair / business / matter / to be engaged in / to attend to / by all means

  • 次
    cì

    next in sequence / second / the second (day, time etc) / secondary / vice- / sub- / infra- / inferior quality / substandard / order / sequence / hypo- (chemistry) / classifier for enumerated events: time

  • 卿
    qīng

    high ranking official (old) / term of endearment between spouses (old) / (from the Tang Dynasty onwards) term used by the emperor for his subjects (old) / honorific (old)

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