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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
- —官寺state-sponsored temples, particularly those favored and protected by the shogunate during the Kamakura period
- —閹官eunuch
- —貴官you
- —官人government official (esp. one of low to medium rank); public servant
- —官司government office; public office; government official
- —二官two departments (under the ritsuryō system: the Dept. of State and the Dept. of Worship)
- —弁官Oversight Department (under the Department of State of the ritsuryō system)
- —六官six ministries (of Zhou dynasty China)
- —天官Ministry of State (Zhou dynasty China)
- —地官Ministry of Civil Administration and Social Welfare (Zhou dynasty China)
- —春官Ministry of Rites (Zhou dynasty China)
- —夏官Ministry of War (Zhou dynasty China)
- —秋官Ministry of Justice (Zhou dynasty China)
- —冬官Ministry of Works (Zhou dynasty China)
- —稗官petty official responsible for collecting public gossip and presenting it to the king (in ancient China)
- —官庫national treasury; warehouse owned by the government
- —大官high-ranking official
- —星官constellation (in ancient China; important constellations were then used to divide the ecliptic into 28 "mansions")
- —官船government-owned ship
- —触官tactile organ; touch organ