Key facts
- Chinese
- 官
- 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
via Wikipedia infobox
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Encyclopedic overview
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.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “mandarin” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.