职掌

職掌
zhízhǎng
verb

Meanings

  1. 1 to be in charge of
  2. 2 to administer (an official duty)
  3. 3 duties / portfolio (as a noun)

Examples

Tā zhízhǎng cáiwù dàquán duōnián.
He has been in charge of financial authority for many years.
Zhè shì bùmén zhǔguǎn de zhízhǎng fànwéi.
This falls within the department head's portfolio of duties.

Tips

register
Formal/administrative term, common in official documents, organizational charts, and historical writing about government posts. In everyday speech, 负责 (fùzé, 'be responsible for') or (guǎn, 'manage') is far more natural.
memory
(zhí) = 'office/duty', (zhǎng) = 'palm; to grasp/control'. Literally 'to hold the duty in one's palm' — to have the office firmly in hand.

Stroke Order

zhí
zhǎng