仕宦

Chinese

		an official	an official
simp. and trad. (仕宦)		仕	宦

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): shìhuàn

  (Zhuyin): ㄕˋ ㄏㄨㄢˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): si⁶ waan⁶

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: shìhuàn
    • Zhuyin: ㄕˋ ㄏㄨㄢˋ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: shìhhuàn
    • Wade–Giles: shih⁴-huan⁴
    • Yale: shr̀-hwàn
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: shyhhuann
    • Palladius: шихуань (šixuanʹ)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ʂʐ̩⁵¹⁻⁵³ xu̯än⁵¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: si⁶ waan⁶
    • Yale: sih waahn
    • Cantonese Pinyin: si⁶ waan⁶
    • Guangdong Romanization: xi⁶ wan⁶
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /siː²² waːn²²/

Verb

仕宦

1. (literary) to become an official; to take an official post; to become a government employee

Synonyms

• 任官 (rènguān) (literary)
• 做官 (zuòguān)
• 入仕 (rùshì) (literary)
• 出仕 (chūshì) (literary)
• 居官 (jūguān) (literary)
• 從政／从政 (cóngzhèng)
• 當官／当官 (dāngguān)
• 臣仕 (chénshì) (Classical Chinese, of a minister)
• 蒞官／莅官 (lìguān) (literary)