官人
Chinese
official; government; organ of body | man; person; people | ||
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simp. and trad. (官人) |
官 | 人 |
Pronunciation
Verb
官人
Synonyms
- (father):
Dialectal synonyms of 爸爸 (“dad”) [map]
Noun
官人
- (archaic) official
- (archaic) runner in a government office
- (archaic) (form of address used between men)
- (archaic) (term used by servants to address their masters)
- (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.
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