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社 kanji
company, firm, office, association, shrine
- JLPT level
- N4 (unofficial)
- First appears in
- N5 vocabulary
- Strokes
- 7
- School grade
- Grade 2 (elementary school)
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On readings
シャ
Kun readings
やしろ
Variant forms
社Words with 社
LevelWord & meaningActions
- —神社局Bureau of Shrine Affairs (1900-1940)
- —官幣社shrine receiving offerings from the Bureau of Divinities (pre-Meiji) or the Imperial Household Department (post-Meiji)
- —国幣社shrine receiving offerings from the provincial government (pre-Meiji) or the national treasury (post-Meiji)
- —無格社unranked shrine
- —大社教Taisha-kyo (sect of Shinto; renamed Izumo Oyashiro-kyo in 1951)
- —元社長former president (of a company); former CEO
- —社会権social right; economic right
- —寿退社resigning from a company on marriage (of a woman)
- —神明社(post-Heian) shrine dedicated to Amaterasu
- —三社祭Sanja Festival (Asakusa Shrine in Tokyo, third weekend of May)
- —闇社会underground world; underground society
- —旅行社travel agent; travel agency
- —社交服party clothes; evening clothes
- —社交場social meeting place; watering hole
- —社大党Socialist Masses Party
- —裏社会underworld; underside of society
- —社員証staff identity card; employee ID card
- —出展社exhibiting company (at a trade show, etc.)
- —社内便interoffice mail; in-house mail
- —車社会automobile society; motorized society