署
Tap the pinyin to hear it
office; bureau; (Taiwan pr. [shu4]) to sign; to arrange
- HSK 3.0
- Level 7–9
- Old HSK
- Level 6
- Strokes
- 13
- Radical
- 网 +8
- Structure
- Top–bottom 上下
- Traditional
- 署
- Common rank
- #1,907
- Unicode
- U+7F72
Sound it out + =
Formation & memory
Break the character into parts you already know.
How to remember it
add your John Hancock · Heisig RSH #2302
net + puppet
Keyword method from Heisig's Remembering Simplified Hanzi.
Words with 署
The most common words first — learning a character in context makes it stick.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 德国学术交流总署 | German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) (Tw) | |
| 联合国开发计划署 | United Nations Development Program | |
| 美国太空总署 | NASA (National Aeronautics and Space Administration) | |
| 行政公署 | administrative office | |
| 内政部警政署 | National Police Agency (Tw) | |
| 海关总署 | General Administration of Customs (GAC) | |
| 联合国环境规划署 | United Nations Environment Program (UNEP) | |
| 新闻出版总署 | General Administration of Press and Publication (PRC state censorship organization) | |
| 卫生署 | health bureau (or office, or department, or agency) | |
| 世界粮食署 | World food program (United Nations aid agency) | |
| 地检署 | district prosecutor's office | |
| 警政署 | National Police Agency (Taiwan); abbr. for 內政部警政署|内政部警政署[Nei4 zheng4 bu4 Jing3 zheng4 shu3… | |
| 消防署 | fire station | |
| 行署 | administrative office | |
| 公署 | government office | |
| 署方 | (government) department | |
| 署名 | to sign (a signature) | |
| 布署 | variant of 部署[bu4 shu3] | |
| 廉政公署 | Independent Commission Against Corruption, Hong Kong (ICAC) | |
| 审计署 | audit office; public accounts committee |
Sound family
Characters sharing the sound component 者 — compare how they read.
| Character | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 者 sound part | that which; they who; those who | |
| 都 | all, each, entirely, whole; metropolis; capital | |
| 猪 | pig, hog, wild boar | |
| 诸 | all, many, various; surname | |
| 著 | to show, to prove, to make known | |
| 赌 | to bet, to gamble, to wager | |
| 绪 | mental state; thread, clue | |
| 屠 | to butcher, to slaughter; massacre | |
| 暑 | hot; heat; summer | |
| 煮 | to boil, to cook | |
| 堵 | wall; to stop, to prevent, to block | |
| 奢 | exaggerated; extravagant, wasteful | |
| 睹 | to look at, to gaze at; to observe | |
| 渚 | islet, sandbar | |
| 箸 | chopsticks | |
| 褚 | bag, valise; to pad, to stuff; surname | |
| 赭 | hematite; ochre, reddish-brown | |
| 啫 | onomatopoeic; an interjection of warning | |
| 楮 | mulberry; paper |