Office in Chinese
office · HSK 3
办公室
- 办 to do
- 公 public
- 室 room
Counted with 间: 一间办公室
老师在办公室等你。 The teacher is waiting for you in the office.
Other ways to say office
More words with 办 or 公 or 室
How do you say office in Chinese?
Office in Chinese is 办公室 (bàn gōng shì). You can also say 局 (jú), 室 (shì), 处 (chù).
Which word should I use?
Start with the first one: it is the easiest on the HSK list. The others say it too, often in a more formal way or for a narrower sense; each one’s page has real sentences that show how it is used.
Where do these words come from?
The CC-CEDICT dictionary’s meanings for the official HSK word list. A word is shown for an English word when that is one of its first meanings; the easiest word whose first meaning it is comes first.
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Meanings from CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Chinese often has more than one way to say a word.