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署

shǔ

HSK 6 Character

What 署 means

1. office
2. bureau
3. (Taiwan pr. shù) to sign
4. to arrange

Example sentences

• 我签署了文件。
  Wǒ qiānshǔ le wénjiàn.
  I signed the document.
• 该信件未署名。
  This letter bears no signature.
• 这封信没署名。
  This letter has no signature.
• 美国太空总署曾计画拯救世界。
  NASA had a plan to save the world.
• 我有个朋友在美国太空总署工作。
  Wǒ yǒu gè péngyou zài Měiguó tàikōng zǒngshǔ gōngzuò.
  I have a friend who works for NASA.
• 这就是他用来签署那份文件的笔了。
  Zhè jiù shì tāyòng lái qiānshǔ nà fèn wénjiàn de bǐ le.
  This is the pen that he signed the document with.

Words starting with 署

• 署名shǔ míngto sign (a signature)
• 署方shǔ fāng(government) department

Words containing 署

• 签署qiān shǔto sign (an agreement)
• 部署bù shǔto dispose; to deploy; deployment
• 警署jǐng shǔpolice station (abbr. for 警察署
• 公署gōng shǔgovernment office
• 总署zǒng shǔgeneral office
• 联署lián shǔjoint signatures (on a letter or declaration)
• 行署xíng shǔadministrative office
• 官署guān shǔofficial institution; state bureau
• 审计署shěn jì shǔaudit office; public accounts committee
• 消防署xiāo fáng shǔfire station
• 海关总署hǎi guān zǒng shǔGeneral Administration of Customs (GAC)
• 行政公署xíng zhèng gōng shǔadministrative office
• 美国太空总署Měi guó Tài kōng Zǒng shǔNASA (National Aeronautics and Space Administration)
• 卫生署wèi shēng shǔhealth bureau (or office, or department, or agency)
• 连署lián shǔto cosign; to countersign
• 警察署jǐng chá shǔpolice station
• 警政署Jǐng zhèng shǔNational Police Agency (Taiwan); abbr. for 内政部警政署
• 地检署dì jiǎn shǔdistrict prosecutor's office
• 内政部警政署Nèi zhèng bù Jǐng zhèng shǔNational Police Agency (Tw)
• 新闻出版总署Xīn wén Chū bǎn Zǒng shǔGeneral Administration of Press and Publication (PRC state censorship organization)
• 避署bì shǔto go on summer vacation
• 世界粮食署shì jiè liáng shi shǔWorld food program (United Nations aid agency)
• 廉署lián shǔICAC Independent Commission Against Corruption, Hong Kong
• 廉政公署Lián zhèng Gōng shǔIndependent Commission Against Corruption, Hong Kong (ICAC)

Characters built on 者

These share the phonetic component 者 (zhě), which is why their readings rhyme. Learning them as a family is far cheaper than learning them one at a time.

• 著zhùto make known; to show; to prove
• 诸zhūall; various
• 赌dǔto bet; to gamble
• 绪xùbeginnings; clues; mental state
• 屠túto slaughter (animals for food); to massacre
• 猪zhūhog; pig; swine
• 堵dǔto block up (a road, pipe etc); to stop up (a hole)…
• 煮zhǔto cook; to boil

Characters that look like 署

Easy to confuse on sight. Compare them side by side once and the pair stops costing you.

• 蒂dìstem (of fruit)
• 暑shǔheat; hot weather; summer heat
• 睾gāo(bound form) testicle
• 廖Liàosurname Liao
• 窘jiǒngdistressed; embarrassed
• 萱xuānorange day-lily (Hemerocallis flava)

Sounds the same

Read shǔ, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 暑heat; hot weather; summer heat
• 属category; genus (taxonomy); family members
• 鼠(bound form) rat; mouse
• 蜀short name for Sichuan 四川; one of the Three Kingdoms 三国
• 数to count; to count as; to regard as; to enumerate; to list
• 薯potato; yam
• 黍broomcorn millet; glutinous millet
• 曙(bound form) daybreak; dawn; Taiwan pr. shù
• 糬used in 麻糬
• 癙illness caused by worry
• 钃metal
• 鼡variant of 鼠