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閣 kanji
tower, tall building, palace
- JLPT level
- N1 (unofficial)
- First appears in
- N1 vocabulary
- Strokes
- 14
- School grade
- Grade 6 (elementary school)
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カク
Kun readings
NoneWords with 閣
LevelWord & meaningActions
- —金閣golden pavilion
- —閣閣(frogs) croaking
- —天守閣castle tower; keep; donjon
- —現内閣current cabinet; present cabinet
- —新内閣new Cabinet
- —閣内相Cabinet ministers
- —内閣法Cabinet Act
- —閣外相minister outside the cabinet; junior minister
- —閣僚級cabinet-level
- —金閣寺Kinkakuji (temple in Kyoto); Golden Pavilion; The Temple of the Golden Pavilion (1956 novel by Yukio Mishima)
- —有斐閣Yūhikaku (law book publisher)
- —空中楼閣castle in the air
- —単独内閣one-party cabinet
- —中間内閣interim cabinet
- —内閣閣僚cabinet members
- —政党内閣party cabinet
- —超然内閣(Meiji or Taisho era) non-partisan cabinet
- —連立内閣coalition cabinet; coalition government
- —神社仏閣(Shinto) shrines and (Buddhist) temples
- —閣議決定cabinet decision
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