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.

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Characters and stroke order

办 bàn

to set up; to manage, to run; to deal with, to handle

radical 19 ⼒ · 4 strokes

公 gōng

fair, equitable; public; duke

radical 12 ⼋ · 4 strokes

室 shì

house, home; room, chamber

radical 40 ⼧ · 9 strokes

Traditional forms

辦 bàn

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.