衙署
yá shǔ
Pinyin

Definition

衙署
 - 
yá shǔ
  1. government office in feudal China
  2. yamen

Character Decomposition

Related Words (20)

qiān shǔ
  1. 1 to sign (an agreement)
shǔ míng
  1. 1 to sign (a signature)
bù shǔ
  1. 1 to dispose
  2. 2 to deploy
  3. 3 deployment
gōng shǔ
  1. 1 government office
shěn jì shǔ
  1. 1 audit office
  2. 2 public accounts committee

Idioms (1)

铁打的衙门,流水的官
tiě dǎ de yá men , liú shuǐ de guān
  1. 1 lit. the yamen is strong as iron, the officials flow like water (idiom)
  2. 2 fig. government officials come and go