Chinese symbol for “office”
办公室
bàn gōng shì
Traditional: 辦公室
office; business premises
The closest CC-CEDICT match for office is 办公室 (bàn gōng shì), defined as: office; business premises.
Before using these characters for a tattoo, check them with a native speaker. Dictionary words often have several meanings, and the right choice depends on context.
Characters and stroke order
Traditional forms
Other Chinese words for “office”
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 局 | jú | office; situation |
| 职 (職) | zhí | office; duty |
| 署 | shǔ | office; bureau |
| 办事处 (辦事處) | bàn shì chù | office; agency; bureau |
| 公室 | gōng shì | office (room); ruling families during Spring and Autumn period |
Related words
Other words that share a character with 办公室.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 办法 (辦法) | bàn fǎ | way of handling sth; means; measure; (practical) solution to a problem; 条 (tiáo) |
| 举办 (舉辦) | jǔ bàn | to conduct; to hold (an event) |
| 怎么办 (怎麼辦) | zěn me bàn | what's to be done |
| 办理 (辦理) | bàn lǐ | to handle; to transact; to conduct |
| 主办 (主辦) | zhǔ bàn | to organize; to host (a conference or sports event) |
| 公司 | gōng sī | company; firm; corporation; measure word: 家 (jiā) |
| 公开 (公開) | gōng kāi | open; overt; public; to make public; to release |
| 公民 | gōng mín | citizen |
| 实验室 (實驗室) | shí yàn shì | laboratory; 间 (jiān) |
See also: Japanese symbol for “office”.
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.
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