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bureaucrat in imperial China

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Chinese
Hanyu pinyin
guān
Bopomofo
ㄍㄨㄢ
Wade giles
kuan
Ipa
[kwa ́ n]
Yale romanization
gūn
Jyutping
gun1
Hokkien poj
koaⁿ / koan
T i l
kuann / kuan

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Mandarin (bureaucrat)
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Vietnamese name Vietnamese alphabetquan quan lại Chữ Hán官 官吏 Korean name Hangul관 Hanja官

A 15th-century portrait of the Ming official Jiang Shunfu. The cranes on his mandarin square indicate that he was a civil official of the sixth rank. A Qing photograph of a government official with mandarin square embroidered in front A European view: a mandarin travelling by boat, Baptista van Doetechum, 1604 Nguyễn Văn Tường, 1824–1886) was a mandarin of the Nguyễn dynasty in Vietnam. A mandarin (Chinese: 官; pinyin: guān) was a bureaucrat scholar in the history of China, Korea, and Vietnam.

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