Kanji Study

Bushu (Radical) Info: 广 (まだれ) – dotted cliff

Henshall Mnemonic: government office is building of exactitude

Levels: JLPT N2 | JLPT 2 (old) | Grade 6
Frequency: #793 of the 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Common Words and/or Phrases Using this Kanji:

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JLPT N2 Words

• 官庁   [かんちょう]
  (n) government office; authorities   [K] [D] [Jisho]
• 県庁   [けんちょう]
  (n) prefectural office   [K] [D] [Jisho]

JLPT N1 Words

• 庁   [ちょう]
  (n,n-suf) government office; agency; board   [K] [D] [Jisho]

Other Popular Words Not Classified by JLPT

• 気象庁   [きしょうちょう]
  Meteorological Agency   [K] [D] [Jisho]
• 省庁   [しょうちょう]
  (n) ministries and government offices; the authorities   [K] [D] [Jisho]
• 海上保安庁   [かいじょうほあんちょう]
  Maritime Safety Agency   [K] [D] [Jisho]
• 国税庁   [こくぜいちょう]
  (Japanese) National Tax Administration Agency   [K] [D] [Jisho]
• 水産庁   [すいさんちょう]
  (Japanese) Fisheries Agency   [K] [D] [Jisho]
• 北海道開発庁長官   [ほっかいどうかいはつちょうちょうかん]
  Director General of Hokkaido Development Agency   [K] [D] [Jisho]
• 沖縄開発庁長官   [おきなわかいはつちょうちょうかん]
  Director General of Okinawa Development Agency   [K] [D] [Jisho]
• 消防庁   [しょうぼうちょう]
  Fire and Disaster Management Agency (formerly: Fire Defense Agency)   [K] [D] [Jisho]
• 国土庁   [こくどちょう]
  (Japanese) National Land Agency   [K] [D] [Jisho]
• 庁舎   [ちょうしゃ]
  (n) government office building   [K] [D] [Jisho]
• 府庁   [ふちょう]
  (n) prefectural office   [K] [D] [Jisho]
• 食糧庁   [しょくりょうちょう]
  food agency   [K] [D] [Jisho]
• 資源エネルギー庁   [しげんエネルギーちょう]
  Agency of Natural Resources and Energy   [K] [D] [Jisho]
• 経企庁   [けいきちょう]
  (abbr) Economic Planning Agency   [K] [D] [Jisho]
• 文化庁   [ぶんかちょう]
  (Japanese) Agency for Cultural Affairs   [K] [D] [Jisho]
• 政庁   [せいちょう]
  (n) government office   [K] [D] [Jisho]
• 経済企画庁   [けいざいきかくちょう]
  Economic Planning Agency   [K] [D] [Jisho]
• 警察庁   [けいさつちょう]
  National Police Agency   [K] [D] [Jisho]
• 環境庁   [かんきょうちょう]
  Environment Agency   [K] [D] [Jisho]
• 警視庁   [けいしちょう]
  police headquarters   [K] [D] [Jisho]
• 社会保険庁   [しゃかいほけんちょう]
  Social Insurance Agency   [K] [D] [Jisho]
• 林野庁   [りんやちょう]
  Forest Service   [K] [D] [Jisho]
• 防衛施設庁   [ぼうえいしせつちょう]
  (Japanese) Defense Facilities Administration Agency   [K] [D] [Jisho]
• 防衛庁   [ぼうえいちょう]
  (Japanese) Defense Agency   [K] [D] [Jisho]
• 都庁   [とちょう]
  (n) Tokyo Government Office   [K] [D] [Jisho]

Find more details for 庁 at jisho.org, Yookoso! or WWWJDIC

Acknowledgments

The sofware used to generate this kanji information uses the EDICT and KANJIDIC files. These files are the property of the Electronic Dictionary Research and Development Group at Monash University and are used in conformance with the Group's license.

NOTE: I converted the sources just mentioned years ago and have never really updated so there may be some missing or incorrect information that has been addressed in the original sources but not here.

The first Stroke Order image used on this page is courtesy of Ulrich Apel's excellent open source KanjiVG project. The second image is from the folks at the excellent Jisho Japanese-English dictionary site and it too is based on KanjiVG.

Classifying the kanji and popular vocabulary by the new JLPT levels was done by consulting Jonathan Waller‘s JLPT Resources page, renshuu, Wictionary, and Nihongo Ichiban.

The Henshall Mnemonics are the copyright of Tuttle Publishing and are the result of the hard work by Professor Henshall. See the list I used here.

If you are curious about the lexicography shown in the word definitions, visit the WWWJDIC abbreviations and codes guide and the JMdict/Edict Lexicographical details page.