Usually means: Chinese term for bureaucratic or official.
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  1. guan: Merriam-Webster
  2. guan: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. guan: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. guan: Collins English Dictionary
  5. guan: Vocabulary.com
  6. Guan, guan: Wordnik
  7. Guan, guan: Wiktionary
  8. guan: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. guan: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. guan: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. Guan, guan: Dictionary.com
  12. Guan (bird), Guan (disambiguation), Guan (instrument), Guan (state), Guan: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  13. Guan: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  14. guan: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  15. guan: Rhymezone
  16. Guan: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  17. guan: FreeDictionary.org
  18. guan: Mnemonic Dictionary
  19. guan: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. guan: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. guan: Medical dictionary

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  1. GUAN: Acronym Finder

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  1. guan: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (Guan)

▸ noun:  Any (member) of several species of birds in the genera Aburria, Chamaepetes, Oreophasis, Penelope, Penelopina, and Pipile, of the family Cracidae, limited to the Americas.
▸ noun:  A surname.

Similar:
chachalaca, quit, white-browed guan, guano, agami, capuchinbird, guaiabero, manakin, guacharaca, parauque, more...

Types:
guanine, guanosine, guanidinium, more...

Phrases:
Guan Yin, guan gong, piping guan, Guan Hanqing, Guan Yu, more...

Adjectives:
little, crested, tong, horned, hui, lim, chinese, lian, black, kui, wattled

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Similar:
chachalaca, quit, white-browed guan, guano, agami, capuchinbird, guaiabero, manakin, guacharaca, parauque, more...

Types:
guanine, guanosine, guanidinium, more...

Phrases:
Guan Yin, guan gong, piping guan, Guan Hanqing, Guan Yu, Guan Xiaotong, Guan Guangfu, Lim Guan Eng, Guan Zhong, Guan Ping, Guan Hu, Guan Xing, Guan Chenchen, Heights of Guan, Guan Li, Ong Eng Guan, more...

Adjectives:
little, crested, tong, horned, hui, lim, chinese, lian, black, kui, wattled



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