"Bureaucracy" • Chinese-English Dictionary
| 官场 | guān chǎng | officialdom / bureaucracy |   |
| 官僚 | guān liáo | bureaucrat / bureaucracy / bureaucratic | |
| 官僚主义 | guān liáo zhǔ yì | bureaucracy | |
| 宦海 | huàn hǎi | officialdom / bureaucracy | |
| 官僚习气 | guān liáo xí qì | (derog.) bureaucracy / red tape | |
| 官职 | guān zhí | an official position / a job in the bureaucracy | |
| 消肿 | xiāo zhǒng | to reduce swelling / detumescence / (fig.) to streamline (a bloated bureaucracy etc) | |
| 官名 | guān míng | name of job in Imperial bureaucracy / official position | |
| 宦海风波 | huàn hǎi fēng bō | lit. raging sea of bureaucracy / officials causing a big fuss | |
| 宦门 | huàn mén | family of officials / family with connections to the bureaucracy (i.e. the middle classes in imperial China) | |
