官 – vocab dash

Keyword

bureaucrat

the government
organ

Frequency: #230
Strokes: 8
Grade: 4
JLPT (old): N2
Heisig: 1363

Readings

カン100%

Mnemonic

A beer-bellied guy stamps forms all day under a chimney-topped roof, never once looking up: the perfect bureaucrat.

Stroke order

Composed of

宀roof with a chimney 㠯guy with a beer belly

Used in kanji

管pipe 館public building 菅sedge (a type of plant)棺coffin 舘large building 倌assistant in wine shop 逭to escape from 琯jade tube used as an instrument 痯sick 綰bend around

Used in vocabulary

長ちょう官かん

secretary (government); director; chief

Noun

官かん房ぼう長ちょう官かん

Chief Cabinet Secretary (Japan); Chief of Staff (to the President, Prime Minister, etc.); Cabinet Secretary; Executive Secretary

Noun

司し令れい官かん

commandant; commanding officer; general

Noun

官かん邸てい

official residence (e.g. of the prime minister)

Noun

官かん僚りょう

bureaucrat; government official; bureaucracy

Noun

次じ官かん

vice-minister; undersecretary

Noun

国こく務む長ちょう官かん

Secretary of State

Noun

高こう官かん

high official

Noun

事じ務む次じ官かん

permanent vice-president; undersecretary; vice-minister

Noun

外がい交こう官かん

diplomat

Noun

官かん房ぼう

government secretariat

Noun

自じ衛えい官かん

Japanese Self-Defense Force official; Self-Defense Force official

Noun

弁べん務む官かん

commissioner

Noun

官かん庁ちょう

government office; government agency; authorities

Noun

警けい官かん

police officer; policeman; constable

Noun

警けい察さつ官かん

police officer; policeman; policewoman

Noun

裁さい判ばん官かん

judge

Noun

政せい務む次じ官かん

deputy minister; assistant minister

Noun

財ざい務む官かん

finance official

Noun

内ない閣かく官かん房ぼう

Cabinet Secretariat

Noun

官かん民みん

government and people; government and private sector; public and private sector

Noun

北ほっ海かい道どう開かい発はつ庁ちょう長ちょう官かん

Director General of Hokkaido Development Agency

Noun

士し官かん

officer

Noun

検けん察さつ官かん

public prosecutor

Noun