Yamen

A yamen (ya-men; traditional Chinese: 衙門; simplified Chinese: 衙门; pinyin: yámén; Wade–Giles: ya2-men2; Manchu: ᠶᠠᠮᡠᠨyamun) was the administrative office or residence of a local bureaucrat or mandarin in imperial China, Korea, and Vietnam. A yamen can also be any governmental office or body headed by a mandarin, at any level of government: the offices of one of the Six Ministries is a yamen, but so is a prefectural magistracy. The term has been widely used in China for centuries, but appeared in English during the Qing dynasty.

Yamen
The former yamen in Kowloon Walled City Park, Hong Kong.
Chinese name
Traditional Chinese衙門 / 牙門 / 官衙
Simplified Chinese衙门 / 牙门 / 官衙
Vietnamese name
Vietnamese alphabetQuan nha / Nha môn
Chữ Hán官衙 / 衙門 / 牙門
Korean name
Hangul관아
Hanja官衙
Manchu name
Manchu scriptᠶᠠᠮᡠᠨ
Möllendorffyamun
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