大鸿胪

Traditional form:

大鴻臚

Pinyin (reading):

dàhónglú

Definitions:

• minister responsible for foreign relations and court protocol in imperial China

Characters:

• 大 - big, great, vast, high, deep
• 鸿 - a species of wild swan; vast
• 胪 - to arrange, to display

Traditional characters:

• 大 - big, great, vast, high, deep
• 鴻 - a species of wild swan; vast
• 臚 - to arrange, to display