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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
- —社会派social awareness (e.g. in fiction)
- —社有地company-owned land
- —式内社shrine listed in the Engi-Shiki
- —支社長branch manager
- —社債券debenture; bond
- —招魂社shrine dedicated to the spirits of the war dead
- —孫会社subsidiary of a subsidiary; sub-subsidiary; second-tier subsidiary
- —社号標name post outside a shrine (usu. a stone pillar)
- —社名版fascia signage; company nameplate
- —女社長female company president; female CEO
- —自社製made by one's (own) company
- —男社会male-dominated society; patriarchal society
- —社長業role of a company president
- —社会脳social brain; social brains
- —若社長young CEO; young company president
- —自社さ(coalition of) the Liberal Democratic Party, Japan Socialist Party and New Party Sakigake (1994-1998)
- —出社日day one goes to work (as opposed to a holiday, working from home, etc.); office day; in-office workday
- —自社便in-house shipping; in-house parcel delivery
- —社労士licensed social insurance consultant; labor and social security attorney
- —村社会village community (esp. hierarchical, conservative and exclusive); insular community; closed society; ring; cartel; clique