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做官 (zuò guān): meaning and stroke order

做官 (zuò guān) means to take an official post, to become a government employee.

做官

Simplified
做官
Traditional
做官 (same form)
Pinyin
zuò guān

Stroke order of 做官

做

  • zuò to make; to produce; to write; to compose
  • 11 strokes

Stroke by stroke

官

  • Guān surname Guan
  • guān government official; governmental
  • 8 strokes

Stroke by stroke

Meaning of 做官

  1. zuò guān
    • to take an official post
    • to become a government employee

Radicals of the characters

做
Radical 人 (Kangxi radical 9) · 11 strokes · 亻 on the left, 故 on the right
官
Radical 宀 (Kangxi radical 40) · 8 strokes · 宀 on top, 㠯 below

Radicals and stroke counts: Unicode Unihan database. Structure: the shapes a character is written with (BabelStone IDS), not necessarily parts that carry meaning or sound.

做官 in our stories

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  • 惠子做过魏国的宰相，喜欢讲逻辑，什么事都要问个为什么；庄子却宁可当一只在泥里自由爬的乌龟，也不愿意做官。

    Huìzǐ zuò guò Wèiguó de zǎixiàng xǐhuan jiǎng luójí shénme shì dōu yào wèn gè wèishénme Zhuāngzǐ què nìngkě dāng yì zhī zài ní lǐ zìyóu pá de wūguī yě bú yuànyì zuòguān

    Huizi had been chancellor of Wei and loved logic; he had to ask why about everything. Zhuangzi, by contrast, would rather be a tortoise crawling freely in the mud than become an official.

    From the story The happiness of fish HSK 7–9 · Level 8

Stories using 做官

Dictionary data: CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Stroke data: Hanzi Writer data, derived from Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License). Animation: Hanzi Writer (MIT licence). Radicals and stroke counts: Unicode Unihan (Unicode License v3).