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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
- —社会言語学sociolinguistics
- —取締役社長managing director; president of a company (US)
- —循環型社会(material) recycling society; recycling-oriented society
- —社会保障費cost of social security; social welfare spending
- —ダミー会社dummy corporation; front company; shell corporation
- —系列子会社keiretsu subsidiary
- —完全子会社wholly-owned subsidiary
- —完全親会社full parent company; wholly-owning parent company; sole parent company
- —会社説明会company information session
- —社会進化論social Darwinism
- —社会性昆虫social insect
- —別格官幣社Imperial Shrine of Special Status (receiving some support from the Imperial Household Department)
- —出社拒否症anxiety or stress-induced inability to go to work
- —長距離会社long distance company
- —社会契約説social contract theory (e.g. Rousseau's)
- —無文字社会pre-literate society; non-literate society
- —ゾンビ会社zombie company
- —有期間社員worker with a fixed term contract of employment
- —社会大衆党Socialist Masses Party (1932-1940)
- —言語社会学sociology of language; sociolinguistics