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職 kanji
post, employment, work
- JLPT level
- N3 (unofficial)
- First appears in
- N3 vocabulary
- Strokes
- 18
- School grade
- Grade 5 (elementary school)
On readings
ショクソク
Kun readings
NoneVariant forms
聀軄Words with 職
LevelWord & meaningActions
- —畳職tatami maker
- —職住workplace and residence
- —職位employment position or rank
- —貴職you; high-ranking government official
- —前職last position; previous job; predecessor
- —元職former job; former position
- —職質police questioning (of a suspicious person); police checkup
- —職層management level; job level
- —党職party position; party post
- —小職girl-in-training (e.g. a geisha-in-training or a girl who performs miscellaneous tasks in a brothel); brat; scamp; rascal; jackanapes; disciple; apprentice
- —職杖mace; (ceremonial) staff
- —頭職appointed official sent to administer a certain region (in the Ryukyu Kingdom)
- —職田land given to high-ranking government officials (ritsuryō system)
- —襲職taking over a duty
- —留職remaining in office
- —出職job that requires traveling to work sites (e.g. repairman, gardener)
- —居職job performed in one's home (e.g. tailor, seal engraver); domestic occupation
- —夜職night work (in the entertainment business or sex industry)
- —昼職daytime work (as opposed to work in the nighttime entertainment business or sex industry)
- —弊職I; me