做官

zuòguān
verb

Meanings

  1. 1 to be an official
  2. 2 to hold office

Examples

HSK 4
Tā bù xiǎng zuòguān, zhǐ xiǎng huí lǎojiā jiāoshū.
He didn't want to be an official; he only wanted to go back home and teach.
HSK 7-9
Táo Yuānmíng zuòguān zuò de bù kāixīn, dāng le bāshí duō tiān xiànlìng jiù cíguān huí jiā zhòngtián le.
Tao Yuanming was unhappy as an official: after just over eighty days as a county magistrate he resigned and went home to farm.

Tips

usage
做官 is the general word for holding office, above all in imperial China, where study for the exams was the road to it. 当官 means the same and is more colloquial.

Stroke Order

做 zuò
官 guān