Kanji1 / 7
局 kanji
bureau, board, office, affair, conclusion, court lady, lady-in-waiting, her apartment
- JLPT level
- N3 (unofficial)
- First appears in
- N5 vocabulary
- Strokes
- 7
- School grade
- Grade 3 (elementary school)
On readings
キョク
Kun readings
つぼね
Words with 局
LevelWord & meaningActions
- —建設局construction bureau
- —印刷局Printing Bureau; Bureau of Printing and Engraving
- —民放局commercial broadcasting station
- —局方品drug included in the Japanese Pharmacopoeia
- —限局性localized; circumscribed
- —警保局Home Ministry Police Affairs Bureau (1876-1947)
- —情報局intelligence agency; intelligence bureau; Cabinet Intelligence Bureau (1940-1945)
- —支局長head of a branch; branch office manager; bureau chief
- —政治局politburo; political bureau (of a communist party)
- —振興局promotion bureau; development office; subprefectural office (in Hokkaido)
- —局アナTV announcer (in the full-time employ of a single broadcaster)
- —大局観broad view; big picture; wide perspective
- —財務局(local) finance bureau
- —監督局supervisory bureau; supervisory authority; board of control
- —広報局public relations department; information bureau
- —気象局meteorological office; weather bureau
- —薬局生pharmacist; chemist
- —区分局(post office) sorting center
- —留置局collection point for pick-up (of held mail, etc.)
- —局所時local time (in relativity theory)