Public official in Chinese
public official · HSK 5
公务员
- 公 public
- 务 affair
- 员 person
Counted with 个: 一个公务员
他毕业后当了公务员。 He became a civil servant after graduating.
More words with 公 or 务 or 员
How do you say public official in Chinese?
Public official in Chinese is 公务员 (gōng wù yuán).
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?
Our own 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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