官僚 | guān liáo | bureaucrat / bureaucracy / bureaucratic | |
下行 | xià xíng | (of trains) down (i.e. away from the capital) / (of river boats) to travel downstream / to issue (a document) to lower bureaucratic levels / (of writing on the page) vertical, proceeding from top to bottom | |
官话 | guān huà | "officialese" / bureaucratic language / Mandarin | |
官制 | guān zhì | the civil service system / the bureaucratic system | |
官倒 | guān dǎo | speculation by officials / profiteering by government employees / bureaucratic turpitude |