办公室

Character by character

• 办bàn4 strokesHSK 2 traditional 辦manage, do, handle; deal with
• 公gōng4 strokesHSK 2fair, equitable; public; duke
• 室shì9 strokesHSK 2room, home, house, chamber; 13th lunar mansion, determinative star α Pegasi (Markab)

Each character links to its stroke order page with a tracing and a writing exercise.

Example sentences

• 明天在办公室见。

  Míng tiān zài bàn gōng shì jiàn

  See you tomorrow in the office.

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• 我开车去办公室。

  Wǒ kāi chē qù bàn gōng shì

  I drive to the office.

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Example sentences from Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0 FR), contributed by their community.

Words with the same characters

These words share at least one character with 办公室. Reading them together is how the character starts to stick — the same characters in a different context.

• 公司gōng sīHSK 2

  company; firm; corporation

• 办法bàn fǎHSK 2

  means; method; way (of doing sth)

• 办bànHSK 2

  to do; to manage; to handle; to go about; to run; to set up; to deal with

• 室shìHSK 3

  room; work unit; grave; scabbard; family or clan; one of the 28 constellations of Chinese astronomy

• 怎么办zěn me bànHSK 2

  what's to be done

• 公开gōng kāiHSK 3

  open; overt; public; to make public; to release

• 公园gōng yuánHSK 2

  park (for public recreation)

• 公平gōng píngHSK 2

  fair; impartial

• 老公lǎo gongHSK 4

  (coll.) eunuch; see also 公

• 公共gōng gòngHSK 3

  public; common; communal

• 公路gōng lùHSK 2

  highway; road

• 公gōngHSK 6

  public; collectively owned; common; international (e.g. high seas, metric system, calendar); make public; fair; just; Duke, highest of five orders of nobility 位; honorable (gentlemen); father-in-law; male (animal)

• 公里gōng lǐHSK 2

  kilometer

• 公众gōng zhòngHSK 6

  public

• 公布gōng bùHSK 3

  to announce; to make public; to publish

• 举办jǔ bànHSK 3

  to conduct; to hold

• 公主gōng zhǔHSK 6

  princess

• 公民gōng mínHSK 3

  citizen

• 公寓gōng yùHSK 7

  apartment building; block of flats

• 实验室shí yàn shìHSK 3

  laboratory

• 公正gōng zhèngHSK 5

  just; fair; equitable

• 卧室wò shìHSK 5

  bedroom

• 公斤gōng jīnHSK 2

  kilogram (kg)

• 办事bàn shìHSK 4

  to handle (affairs); to work