It is necessary to obtain the sanction of the authorities to enter this building.
CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY
当局
authorities
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DEFINITIONS & USAGE
Meaning and common use
01
authorities
REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES
How 当局 actually appears in real sentences.
These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 当局 appears in 4 of the 89,190 sentences we searched.
China's health authorities are taking steps to stop the spread of the coronavirus.
The discrepancy between the stories of the two parties involved in the accident was so great that the authorities had a hard time deciding which side was telling the truth.
COMMON COLLOCATIONS
Words that keep company with 当局.
Counted from the same corpus: the word that most often comes directly before, and directly after, 当局.
Directly before
- 有关当局1
- 卫生当局1
Directly after
- 当局的1
- 当局在1
- 当局正在1
- 当局难以1
ABOUT THIS ENTRY
Where this entry comes from
The HSK level, part of speech, and pronunciation come from the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus. The English definitions come from CC-CEDICT. Corpus sentences, collocations, and the frequency figure come from the Tatoeba Chinese sentence export and are counted rather than written, so nothing on this page is invented. Usage notes and the hand-written examples that appear higher up exist only for a handful of entries.
Definitions from CC-CEDICT, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Vocabulary levels and parts of speech from the HSK 3.1 syllabus. This compiled dictionary is shared under the same CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
COMMON QUESTIONS
About 当局
What does 当局 mean in Chinese?
当局 (dāngjú) means authorities.
How do you pronounce 当局?
当局 is pronounced dāngjú.
Is 当局 an HSK word?
当局 is on the list of the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus.
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