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Definition(s) for: 清官难断家务事

Hanzi Pinyin Definition(s)
清官难断家务事 qīng guān nán duàn jiā wù shì - even an honest and upright official will have difficulty resolving a family dispute (proverb)

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HSK 2 Level (2012) HSK 3 Band (2022) SUBTLEX-CH BeijingUni Global BeijingUni Weibo
- - - - 84,631

Individual Character Breakdown:

Simp Pinyin Eng
清 qīng- Qing (Wade-Giles: Ch'ing) dynasty of China (1644-1911)
- surname Qing
清 qīng- (of water etc) clear; clean
- quiet; still
- pure; uncorrupted
- clear; distinct
- to clear; to settle (accounts)
官 guān- surname Guan
官 guān- government official
- governmental
- official
- public
- organ of the body
- CL:個|个[ge4]
难 nán- difficult (to...)
- problem
- difficulty
- difficult
- not good
难 nàn- disaster
- distress
- to scold
断 duàn- to break
- to snap
- to cut off
- to give up or abstain from sth
- to judge
- (usu. used in the negative) absolutely
- definitely
- decidedly
家 jiā- home
- family
- (polite) my (sister, uncle etc)
- classifier for families or businesses
- refers to the philosophical schools of pre-Han China
- noun suffix for a specialist in some activity, such as a musician or revolutionary, corresponding to English -ist, -er, -ary or -ian
- CL:個|个[ge4]
家 jiā- used in 傢伙|家伙[jia1huo5] and 傢俱|家俱[jia1ju4]
务 wù- affair
- business
- matter
- to be engaged in
- to attend to
- by all means
事 shì- matter
- thing
- item
- work
- affair
- CL:件[jian4],樁|桩[zhuang1],回[hui2]

Other Words Containing 清官难断家务事

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Word HSK 2 Level (2012) HSK 3 Band (2022) SUBTLEX-CH BeijingUni Global BeijingUni Weibo