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Chinese official's office
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yamen
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The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Yamen \Ya"men\, n. [Chin. ya a civil or military court + men a gate.] In China, the official headquarters or residence of a mandarin, including court rooms, offices, gardens, prisons, etc.; the place where the business of any public department is transcated. ...
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A yamen ( ya-men ; ) was the administrative office and/or residence of a local bureaucrat or mandarin in imperial China . 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 ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. A residence of an official of the Chinese Empire.
Usage examples of yamen.
They sat in the courtyard of the Yamen even now, their crews ready for action.
The walled enclosure of the yamen housed the county head's residence, his audience hall, the jail, the court that sent people there, the treasury, and other government departments.
The yamen was a smoking ruin, its walls smashed down here and there as if by a giant's kicks.
Villagers were already going through the yamen, scavenging what they could and dragging out bodies and pieces of bodies.
The walled enclosure of the yamen housed the county head's residence, his audience hail, the jail, the court that sent people there, the treasury, and other government departments.
The yamen was a smoking ruin, its walls smashed down here and there as if by a giant’s kicks.
Master Li had the soldiers look around on the odd chance that the body might be nearby, and then he added the head to the litter and sent the soldiers on toward the yamen, with a note to the magistrate praising the sergeant's work.