警察

Chinese

to alert; to warn; police
 
examine; inquire; observe; inspect; look into; to examine
trad. (警察) 警 察
simp. #(警察) 警 察

Etymology

Wasei kango (和製漢語), orthographically borrowed from Japanese 警 (けい)察 (さつ) (keisatsu, “police”)

Pronunciation

Noun

警察

  1. (uncountable) police; police force
    警察暴力  ―  jǐngchá bàolì  ―  police brutality
  2. (countable) police officer (Classifier: 名; 位)

Usage notes

  • Whilst 警察 usually refers to the police and police officers outside mainland China, the equivalent institution in the PRC is actually called 公安 (gōng'ān), literally, "public security".

Synonyms

Dialectal synonyms of 警察 (“police; police officer”) [map]
Variety Location Words
Formal (Written Standard Chinese) 警察、警官、警員
Argot Argot 條子
Mandarin Beijing 警察
Taiwan 警察
Harbin 警察
Jinan 警察
Muping 警察
Luoyang 警察
Jiedian 警察
Xi'an 警察
Xuzhou 警察
Ürümqi 警察
Wuhan 警察
Chengdu 警察
Guiyang 警察、警士 dated、警士先生 dated face-to-face、貓菜 dated nickname
Liuzhou 警察、警伯 playful
Nanjing 警察
Malaysia 馬打
Singapore 馬打
Cantonese Guangzhou 警察、差人、差佬 male
Hong Kong 警察、差人、阿Sir male、差佬 male
Dongguan 阿Sir、差佬
Taishan 警察
Kuala Lumpur 馬打
Gan Lichuan 警察
Hakka Meixian 警察
Yudu 警察
Miaoli (N. Sixian) 警察
Liudui (S. Sixian) 警察
Hsinchu (Hailu) 警察
Dongshi (Dabu) 巡查、警察
Zhuolan (Raoping) 警察
Yunlin (Zhao'an) 巡查
Huizhou Jixi 警察
Jin Taiyuan 警察
Xinzhou 警察、小對子 dated
Min Dong Fuzhou 警察
Fuqing 警察
Matsu 警察
Min Nan Xiamen 警察
Quanzhou 警察
Zhangzhou 警察
Taipei 大人
Kaohsiung 警察
Tainan 大人
Taichung 巡查
Wuqi 警察
Hsinchu 警察
Lukang 警察
Yilan 警察
Magong 大人
Penang 馬打
Singapore 馬打、大狗
Haikou 警察
Pinghua Nanning 警察
Wu Shanghai 警察、黑貓警長、黑貓、老貓
Suzhou 警察
Wenzhou 警察
Chongming 警察
Danyang 警察
Jinhua 警察
Xiang Changsha 警察
Loudi 警察

Derived terms

See also

Japanese

Kanji in this term
警 察
けい
Grade: 6		 さつ
Grade: 4
on’yomi

Pronunciation

Noun

警察 (hiragana けいさつ, rōmaji keisatsu)

  1. police
    警察 (けいさつ)に逮捕 (たいほ)される。
    Keisatsu ni taiho sareru.
    Arrested by the police.

Derived terms

Descendants

References

  1. ↑ 2006, 大辞林 (Daijirin), Third Edition (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN
  2. ↑ 1998, NHK日本語発音アクセント辞典 (NHK Japanese Pronunciation Accent Dictionary) (in Japanese), Tōkyō: NHK, →ISBN
  3. ↑ 1997, 新明解国語辞典 (Shin Meikai Kokugo Jiten), Fifth Edition (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN

Korean

Hanja in this term
警察

Noun

警察 • (gyeongchal) (hangeul 경찰)

  1. Hanja form? of 경찰 (“police”).

Okinawan

Etymology

First used around the beginning of the Meiji period,[1] borrowed from Japanese 警察 (keisatsu).

Noun

警察 (hiragana きーさち, romaji kīsachi, hiragana ちーさち, romaji chīsachi)

  1. police

References

  1. ↑ 沖縄語辞典 (Okinawago Jiten, “Okinawan Dictionary”)‎, 1963

Vietnamese

Hán tự in this word
警察

Noun

警察

  1. Hán tự form of cảnh sát, “police”
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