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公安 is the Chinese, Japanese Kanji, and old Korean Hanja title for (The Ministry of) Public Security. 公安 can also generally mean public safety, public security, or public welfare. It is a positive term in Japan, where some even name their daughters “Kouan” (this title).
In China, this is the kinder name for the PSB or Public Security Bureau. It's really the national police of China - occasionally brutal and seldom properly-trained or educated. Once in a while, you find a PSB officer who lives up to the title of 公安. Before the 1989 massacre, it was the PSB officers who refused to stop nor kill any of the protesting college students (so they're not all bad). The Chinese government had to call in soldiers from Inner Mongolia to kill thousands of protesters.
Below are some entries from our dictionary that may match your bureau search...
Characters If shown, 2nd row is Simp. Chinese |
Pronunciation Romanization |
Simple Dictionary Definition |
司 see styles |
sī si1 ssu shi し |
to take charge of; to manage; department (under a ministry) (archaism) (hist) (See 律令制) office (government department beneath a bureau under the ritsuryō system); (given name) Mamoru |
寮 see styles |
liáo liao2 liao ryou / ryo りょう |
hut; shack; small window; variant of 僚[liao2] (1) hostel; dormitory; (2) (archaism) (See 律令制) bureau (government department beneath a ministry under the ritsuryō system); (3) (archaism) (See 茶寮・1) tea-ceremony room; (4) (archaism) (See 別荘・1) villa; (surname, given name) Ryō A hut, study, monastery; fellow-student. |
櫃 柜 see styles |
guì gui4 kuei hitsu ひつ |
cupboard; cabinet; wardrobe (1) (kana only) chest; coffer; (2) (See 御櫃) rice tub; lidded round, wooden container for cooked rice; (surname) Hitsugi A counter, cupboard, bureau. |
署 see styles |
shǔ shu3 shu sho しょ |
office; bureau; (Taiwan pr. [shu4]) to sign; to arrange (abbreviation) (See 警察署,消防署,税務署) station (esp. a police station); office (e.g. tax office) |
處 处 see styles |
chù chu4 ch`u chu tokoro ところ |
place; location; spot; point; office; department; bureau; respect; classifier for locations or items of damage: spot, point (out-dated kanji) (n,suf) (1) place; spot; scene; site; (2) (kana only) address; (3) (kana only) district; area; locality; (4) (kana only) one's house; (5) (kana only) point; aspect; side; facet; (6) (kana only) passage (in text); part; (7) (kana only) space; room; (8) (kana only) thing; matter; (9) (kana only) whereupon; as a result; (10) (kana only) about to; on the verge of; (11) (kana only) was just doing; was in the process of doing; have just done; just finished doing; (surname) Tokoro To dwell, abide; fix, decide, punish; a place, state. āyatana, 阿耶怛那, also tr. 入, place or entrance of the sense, both the organ and the sensation, or sense datum; hence the 十二處 twelve āyatana, i. e. six organs, and six sense data that enter for discrimination. |
他局 see styles |
takyoku たきょく |
(1) another broadcaster; another station; another channel; (2) another office; another bureau; another department |
僧省 see styles |
sēng shěng seng1 sheng3 seng sheng sōshō |
saṃgha bureau |
入管 see styles |
nyuukan / nyukan にゅうかん |
(abbreviation) (See 入国管理局) Immigration Bureau |
内局 see styles |
naikyoku ないきょく |
bureau in a ministry |
分局 see styles |
fēn jú fen1 ju2 fen chü bunkyoku ぶんきょく |
branch office; sub-bureau branch office; local office |
分社 see styles |
fēn shè fen1 she4 fen she bunsha ぶんしゃ |
subdivision or branch of an organization; news bureau (noun/participle) (1) branch shrine; (noun/participle) (2) corporate spin-off; split-off business |
医薬 see styles |
iyaku いやく |
(noun - becomes adjective with の) (1) medicine; (noun - becomes adjective with の) (2) (abbreviation) (from 医薬安全局) Pharmaceutical and Food Safety Bureau |
司長 司长 see styles |
sī zhǎng si1 zhang3 ssu chang |
bureau chief |
同局 see styles |
doukyoku / dokyoku どうきょく |
(1) the said bureau (office, department, broadcasting station, channel, etc.); (2) same bureau (office, department, broadcasting station, channel, etc.) |
外局 see styles |
gaikyoku がいきょく |
external bureau |
官署 see styles |
guān shǔ guan1 shu3 kuan shu kansho かんしょ |
official institution; state bureau government office |
局内 see styles |
kyokunai きょくない |
(noun - becomes adjective with の) within an office (bureau, branch, etc.) |
局員 see styles |
kyokuin きょくいん |
clerk; (bureau, post-office) staff |
局級 局级 see styles |
jú jí ju2 ji2 chü chi |
(administrative) bureau-level |
局舎 see styles |
kyokusha きょくしゃ |
bureau; office building |
局長 局长 see styles |
jú zhǎng ju2 zhang3 chü chang kyokuchou / kyokucho きょくちょう |
bureau chief; CL:位[wei4],個|个[ge4] bureau director; office chief |
楽府 see styles |
gafu; gakufu がふ; がくふ |
(1) (hist) Music Bureau (Han dynasty; government office responsible for collecting folk songs); (2) yuefu (genre of Chinese poetry composed in a folk song style) |
箪笥 see styles |
tansu(p); tansu たんす(P); タンス |
(kana only) chest of drawers; bureau; cabinet; tansu; dresser; (place-name) Tansu |
部局 see styles |
bukyoku ぶきょく |
department; bureau; section; part |
部所 see styles |
busho ぶしょ |
(irregular kanji usage) (noun/participle) one's post; one's station; department; bureau; section |
部署 see styles |
bù shǔ bu4 shu3 pu shu busho ぶしょ |
to dispose; to deploy; deployment (noun/participle) one's post; one's station; department; bureau; section |
閉局 see styles |
heikyoku / hekyoku へいきょく |
(noun/participle) closing (of a broadcasting station, post office, bureau, etc.) |
開局 开局 see styles |
kāi jú kai1 ju2 k`ai chü kai chü kaikyoku かいきょく |
opening (chess etc); early stage of game, match, work, activity etc (n,vs,vt,vi) opening (of a broadcasting station, post office, bureau, etc.); establishment |
ABC see styles |
eebiishii / eebishi エービーシー |
(1) (company) American Broadcasting Company; ABC; (2) (organization) Audit Bureau of Circulations; ABC; (3) (product) ABC World Airways Guide; (c) American Broadcasting Company; ABC; (o) Audit Bureau of Circulations; ABC; (product name) ABC World Airways Guide |
FBI see styles |
efu bii ai; efubiiai(sk) / efu bi ai; efubiai(sk) エフ・ビー・アイ; エフビーアイ(sk) |
Federal Bureau of Investigation; FBI; (o) Federal Bureau of Investigation; FBI |
The following table may be helpful for those studying Chinese or Japanese...
Title | Characters | Romaji (Romanized Japanese) | Various forms of Romanized Chinese | |
Police Public Security Bureau | 公安 | kou an / kouan / ko an | gōng ān / gong1 an1 / gong an / gongan | kung an / kungan |
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All of our calligraphy wall scrolls are handmade.
When the calligrapher finishes creating your artwork, it is taken to my art mounting workshop in Beijing where a wall scroll is made by hand from a combination of silk, rice paper, and wood.
After we create your wall scroll, it takes at least two weeks for air mail delivery from Beijing to you.
Allow a few weeks for delivery. Rush service speeds it up by a week or two for $10!
When you select your calligraphy, you'll be taken to another page where you can choose various custom options.
The wall scroll that Sandy is holding in this picture is a "large size"
single-character wall scroll.
We also offer custom wall scrolls in small, medium, and an even-larger jumbo size.
Professional calligraphers are getting to be hard to find these days.
Instead of drawing characters by hand, the new generation in China merely type roman letters into their computer keyboards and pick the character that they want from a list that pops up.
There is some fear that true Chinese calligraphy may become a lost art in the coming years. Many art institutes in China are now promoting calligraphy programs in hopes of keeping this unique form
of art alive.
Even with the teachings of a top-ranked calligrapher in China, my calligraphy will never be good enough to sell. I will leave that to the experts.
The same calligrapher who gave me those lessons also attracted a crowd of thousands and a TV crew as he created characters over 6-feet high. He happens to be ranked as one of the top 100 calligraphers in all of China. He is also one of very few that would actually attempt such a feat.
Check out my lists of Japanese Kanji Calligraphy Wall Scrolls and Old Korean Hanja Calligraphy Wall Scrolls.
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