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Keyword
primary supervisor
  • superintend
  • manager
  • rule
Frequency
#1597
Strokes
10
Grade
8
JLPT (old)
N1
Heisig
1615
Readings
サイ100%
Mnemonic
Under a roof with a chimney, the cooks fear the primary supervisor, who tastes every spicy curry and fires anyone whose dish fails to make him cry.
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Used in kanji
Used in vocabulary
主しゅ宰さい
chairmanship; presidency; management; president; chairman
Noun
宰さい相しょう
prime minister; premier; chancellor
Noun
大宰府だざいふ
dazaifu (under the ritsuryō system, governmental office with jurisdiction over Kyushu, Iki and Tsushima)
Noun