官府 (guān fǔ): meaning and stroke order

官府 in our stories

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• 名字的最后，有一行小字：“荒年，官府禁止私放粮食，然人命关天，不敢见死不救。记此，勿让子孙忘。”

  míngzi de zuìhòu yǒu yì háng xiǎozì huāngnián guānfǔ jìnzhǐ sī fàng liángshi rán rénmìng guān tiān bù gǎn jiàn sǐ bú jiù jì cǐ wù ràng zǐsūn wàng

  After the names came a line in small script: "Famine year. The authorities forbid private grain relief, yet human life is at stake; I dare not stand by and let people die. I record this so my descendants will not forget."

  From the story Words written in rice water HSK 7–9 · Level 7

• 一家二十多口人要吃饭，他只好向官府要了一块荒地，自己开荒种地。因为这块地在城东的山坡上，他就给自己起了个号，叫“东坡居士”。

  yìjiā èrshí duō kǒu rén yào chīfàn tā zhǐhǎo xiàng guānfǔ yào le yí kuài huāngdì zìjǐ kāihuāng zhòng dì yīnwèi zhè kuài dì zài chéng dōng de shānpō shàng tā jiù gěi zìjǐ qǐ le gè hào jiào Dōngpō jūshì

  With a household of over twenty to feed, he had to ask the authorities for a plot of waste land and clear it to farm himself. Because it lay on a hillside east of the town, he gave himself a name: "the Lay Buddhist of the Eastern Slope", Dongpo.

  From the story Neither wind and rain nor sunshine HSK 7–9 · Level 9