官人

Chinese

official; government; organ of body man; person; people
simp. and trad.
(官人)
alternative forms 官儂官侬 Min

Pronunciation


Verb

官人

  1. (archaic) to confer the title and position of an official
  2. (Yixian Huizhou, face-to-face) father

Synonyms

  • (father):

Noun

官人

  1. (archaic) official
  2. (archaic) runner in a government office
  3. (archaic) (form of address used between men)
  4. (archaic) (term used by servants to address their masters)
  5. (term used by wives to address their husbands)

Usage notes

The last sense - term used by wives to address their husbands - is the only sense still in use in modern Mandarin.

References

  • 李如龙 [Li, Ru-long], 刘福铸 [Liu, Fu-zhu], 吴华英 [Wu, Hua-ying], 黄国城 [Huang, Guo-cheng] (2019) 莆仙方言调查报告 [Investigation Report on Puxian Dialect] (overall work in Mandarin and Puxian Min), Xiamen University Press, →ISBN, page 33.

Japanese

Kanji in this term
かん
Grade: 4
じん
Grade: 1
on'yomi

Noun

(かん)(じん) • (kanjin

  1. (obsolete) low-ranking government official
  2. (obsolete) public servant