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稗官
bài guān
What 稗官 means
- oldpetty official charged with reporting back to the ruler on what people in a locality are talking about
- novel in the vernacular
- fiction writer; novelist
The characters in 稗官
- 稗bàibarnyard millet (Echinochloa crus-galli); Panicum crus-galli; (literary) insignificant
- 官guāngovernment official; governmental; official
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