僚佐
Chinese
| bureaucrat | assist | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| simp. and trad. (僚佐) |
僚 | 佐 | |
Pronunciation
- Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)+
- Hanyu Pinyin: liáozuǒ
- Zhuyin: ㄌㄧㄠˊ ㄗㄨㄛˇ
- Tongyong Pinyin: liáozuǒ
- Wade–Giles: liao2-tso3
- Yale: lyáu-dzwǒ
- Gwoyeu Romatzyh: liautzuoo
- Palladius: ляоцзо (ljaoczo)
- Sinological IPA (key): /li̯ɑʊ̯³⁵ t͡su̯ɔ²¹⁴⁻²¹⁽⁴⁾/
- (Standard Chinese)+
Noun
僚佐
- (historical) assistants in a government office
- 於是知事及其僚佐們的荷包，只好空著。 [MSC, trad.]
- From: 1927, 毛澤東 (Mao Zedong), 《湖南農民運動考察報告》 (Report on an Investigation of the Peasant Movement in Hunan), 《毛澤東選集》. English translation based on the Foreign Languages Press edition
- Yúshì zhīshì jí qí liáozuǒmen de hébāo, zhǐhǎo kōngzhe. [Pinyin]
- So it is that the purses of the magistrates and their underlings perforce remain empty.
于是知事及其僚佐们的荷包，只好空着。 [MSC, simp.]