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官 kanji
bureaucrat, the government, organ
- JLPT level
- N3 (unofficial)
- First appears in
- N5 vocabulary
- Strokes
- 8
- School grade
- Grade 4 (elementary school)
On readings
カン
Kun readings
NoneWords with 官
LevelWord & meaningActions
- —務長官secretary (government)
- —審議官Assistant Vice-Minister; Deputy Director-General; Councillor
- —面接官interviewer (for job, school, etc. interviews)
- —猟官制spoils system
- —検死官coroner
- —産学官industry-academic-government (cooperation, etc.)
- —林務官forester
- —行刑官prison official
- —官幣社shrine receiving offerings from the Bureau of Divinities (pre-Meiji) or the Imperial Household Department (post-Meiji)
- —官奴婢government-owned slave
- —四等官four administrative positions (of the ritsuryō system: kami, suke, jou, sakan)
- —左弁官Oversight Department of the Left (overseeing the Ministries of Central Affairs, Ceremonies, Civil Administration and Popular Affairs; ritsuryō system)
- —地方官regional administrator; local government official
- —管理官administrator; director; commissioner
- —左官屋plasterer
- —視学官(prefectural) school inspector
- —労働官labor attache
- —警務官military police; MP
- —産官学industry, government and academia
- —法務官legal officer; legal office; judge advocate (army); praetor (Roman magistrate); pretor