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Kanji Information Sheet for 局 ( 
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| English: bureau board office affair conclusion court lady lady-in-waiting her apartment | On-Yomi: キョク | Kun-Yomi: つぼね |
Bushu (Radical) Info: 尸 (しかばね) – flag
Henshall Mnemonic: office corpse uses odd phrase in circumstances
Levels: JLPT N3 | JLPT 2 (old) | Grade 3
Frequency: #286 of the 2500 most used kanji in newspapers
Frequency: #286 of the 2500 most used kanji in newspapers
Common Words and/or Phrases Using this Kanji:
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JLPT N5 Words
JLPT N3 Words
- 結局 [けっきょく]
(n-adv,n) after all; eventually [K] [D] [Jisho] - 局 [きょく]
(n,n-suf) channel (i.e. TV or radio); department; affair; situation [K] [D] [Jisho]
JLPT N2 Words
Other Popular Words Not Classified by JLPT
- 政局 [せいきょく]
(n) political situation [K] [D] [Jisho] - 造幣局 [ぞうへいきょく]
(n) (coin) mint [K] [D] [Jisho] - 国税局 [こくぜいきょく]
(n) revenue [K] [D] [Jisho] - 対局 [たいきょく]
(n) (playing) a game of go, shogi or chess, etc. [K] [D] [Jisho] - 終局 [しゅうきょく]
(n) end; close; conclusion; denouement; finale; end of a game of go [K] [D] [Jisho] - 総務局 [そうむきょく]
General Affairs Bureau [K] [D] [Jisho] - 法制局 [ほうせいきょく]
(n) Cabinet Legislation Bureau [K] [D] [Jisho] - 当局 [とうきょく]
(n) authorities [K] [D] [Jisho] - 支局 [しきょく]
(n) branch office [K] [D] [Jisho] - 部局 [ぶきょく]
(n) department; bureau; section; part [K] [D] [Jisho] - 入国管理局 [にゅうこくかんりきょく]
immigration office [K] [D] [Jisho] - 事務局 [じむきょく]
(n) secretariat; executive office [K] [D] [Jisho] - 破局 [はきょく]
(n) catastrophe; cataclysm [K] [D] [Jisho] - 開局 [かいきょく]
(n) opening of post-office or telephone exchange [K] [D] [Jisho] - 事務当局 [じむとうきょく]
officials in charge [K] [D] [Jisho] - 医局 [いきょく]
(n) medical office; dispensary [K] [D] [Jisho] - 書記局 [しょききょく]
(n) secretariat [K] [D] [Jisho] - 時局 [じきょく]
(n) situation [K] [D] [Jisho] - 主計局 [しゅけいきょく]
budget bureau [K] [D] [Jisho] - 局員 [きょくいん]
(n) clerk; (bureau, post-office) staff [K] [D] [Jisho] - 難局 [なんきょく]
(n) difficult situation [K] [D] [Jisho] - 局地 [きょくち]
(n) municipal; limited area; locality [K] [D] [Jisho] - 局長 [きょくちょう]
(n) bureau director; office chief [K] [D] [Jisho] - 局番 [きょくばん]
(n) telephone exchange number [K] [D] [Jisho] - 局面 [きょくめん]
(n) checkerboard; aspect; situation [K] [D] [Jisho]
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.