| 加官晋爵 |
jiā guān jìn jué |
to confer a title an official position |
| 加 |
Jiā |
Canada (abbr. for 加拿大) / surname Jia |
| 加 |
jiā |
to add / (math.) plus / to increase; to augment / (used before a disyllabic verb, often after an adverb like 不, 大, 稍 etc, to indicate that the action applies to sth previously mentioned, as in 稍加改良 "make some minor improvements to (it)") |
| 加官 |
jiā guān |
to be promoted / additional government post |
| 官 |
Guān |
surname Guan |
| 官 |
guān |
government official / governmental / official / public / organ of the body / CL:个 |
| 晋 |
Jìn |
surname Jin / the Jin Dynasties (265–420) / Western Jin 西晋 (265–316), Eastern Jin 东晋 (317–420) and Later Jin Dynasty (936–946) / short name for Shanxi 山西 |
| 晋 |
jìn |
to move forward / to promote / to advance |
| 晋爵 |
jìn jué |
to join the nobility / to rise through the nobility |
| 爵 |
jué |
ancient bronze wine holder with 3 legs and loop handle / nobility |