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Chinese symbol for “consulate”

使馆
shǐ guǎn
Traditional: 使館
consulate; diplomatic mission

The closest CC-CEDICT match for consulate is 使馆 (shǐ guǎn), defined as: consulate; diplomatic mission.

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Characters and stroke order

使 shǐ
cause, mission, orders; envoy, messenger, ambassador
radical 9 ⼈ · 8 strokes
馆 guǎn
public building; shop, house, establishment
radical 184 ⾷ · 11 strokes

Traditional forms

Other Chinese words for “consulate”

WordPinyinMeaning
领事馆 (領事館)lǐng shì guǎnconsulate
领馆 (領館)lǐng guǎnconsulate; consular official

Related words

Other words that share a character with 使馆.

WordPinyinMeaning
使用shǐ yòngto use; to employ
即使jí shǐeven if; even though
使得shǐ deusable; serviceable; feasible; workable; doable
大使dà shǐambassador; envoy
天使tiān shǐangel
行使xíng shǐto exercise (a right etc)
博物馆 (博物館)bó wù guǎnmuseum
图书馆 (圖書館)tú shū guǎnlibrary; measure word: 家 (jiā), 个 (gè)

See also: Japanese symbol for “consulate”.

Data: CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0); Unihan Database (Unicode License v3); Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License (graphics.txt); LGPL-3.0-or-later (dictionary.txt)); wordfreq (CC BY-SA 4.0 (data)). Retrieved 2026-10-22.