Yamen
Residences of bureaucrats in imperial China / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Not to be confused with Yemen.
For place in Guangdong, see Yamen, Guangdong.
A yamen (ya-men; traditional Chinese: 衙門; simplified Chinese: 衙门; pinyin: yámén; Wade–Giles: ya2-men2; Manchu: ᠶᠠᠮᡠᠨyamun) was the administrative office or residence of a local bureaucrat or mandarin in imperial China, Korea,[1] and Vietnam.[2][3] A yamen can also be any governmental office or body headed by a mandarin, at any level of government: the offices of one of the Six Ministries is a yamen, but so is a prefectural magistracy. The term has been widely used in China for centuries, but appeared in English during the Qing dynasty[citation needed].
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Traditional Chinese | 衙門 / 牙門 / 官衙 | ||||||||||||||
Simplified Chinese | 衙门 / 牙门 / 官衙 | ||||||||||||||
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Vietnamese alphabet | Quan nha / Nha môn | ||||||||||||||
Chữ Hán | 官衙 / 衙門 / 牙門 | ||||||||||||||
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Hangul | 관아 | ||||||||||||||
Hanja | 官衙 | ||||||||||||||
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Manchu script | ᠶᠠᠮᡠᠨ | ||||||||||||||
Möllendorff | yamun | ||||||||||||||
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