Kanji
Readingかん
Frequency69%
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Shinto priest
government service; the bureaucracy
police officer; policeman; constable
commander; commanding officer; CO
teacher; instructor; professor
civil official
court lady; lady-in-waiting
police officer; policeman; policewoman
commandant; commanding officer; general
secretary (government); director; chief
adjutant; aide; aide-de-camp
superior officer
organ (of body, plant, etc.)
local governor (Edo period); local magistrate; bailiff; deputy official (middle ages); acting administrator
bureaucrat; government official; bureaucracy
military officer; naval officer
police investigator; investigator
medical officer
government official; clerk
minister's secretary
high official
the senses; sensuality; carnality
commander-in-chief; supreme commander
administrator; director; commissioner
prison officer; corrections officer; penal officer; prison guard; jailor; warder
non-commissioned officer
official in charge
government forces; loyalist army
administrative official; secretary; commissioner
official post; regular post; principal post (as opposed to secondary post); I (of someone in government or the civil service)
Commander-in-Chief; C-in-C
government service; entering government service; (of a ronin) finding a new lord or master to serve
Japanese Self-Defense Force official; Self-Defense Force official
petty official; I; me
(squad of) police; police force
sensual; voluptuous; sexy; arousing
general; admiral
official residence (e.g. of the prime minister)
inspector; supervisor
vice-minister; undersecretary
public prosecutor
interviewer (for job, school, etc. interviews)
technical official; technical officer
office and rank; an official rank
peace officer; sheriff
government service; official position; civil service
officials; authorities
councillor; councilor
official residence
Chief Cabinet Secretary (Japan); Chief of Staff (to the President, Prime Minister, etc.); Cabinet Secretary; Executive Secretary
(air traffic) controller
appointment (to an office); investiture; commission
erotic novel; amorous novel; pornographic novel
case worker; case officer
parliamentary official
inspector; examiner; auditor
permanent vice-president; undersecretary; vice-minister
academic advisor (e.g. at a university research lab)
inspector; auditor; examiner; comptroller
examiner; investigator; inquisitor; agent
executive officer; administrative official
government office; government agency; authorities
military cadet; officer cadet
field officer
official uniform; official dress
common hill mynah (Gracula religiosa); hill myna; myna bird
prime minister's official residence
deputy secretary (government); deputy director
retirement from office
plasterer
legal officer; legal office; judge advocate (army); praetor; pretor
elite bureaucrat; high government official; high-ranking bureaucrat; senior government official
high (government) official
councillor; councilor
government secretariat
Ministry of Works (Zhou-dynasty China)
Chief Cabinet Secretary
Assistant Vice-Minister; Deputy Director-General; Councillor
all the officials
examiner (e.g. patent examiner)
press officer; press secretary
officer of the court
two departments (under the ritsuryo system: the Dept. of State and the Dept. of Worship)
Grand Council of State (1868-1885 CE); Department of State (under the ritsuryo system)
government and municipal offices; public agencies
high-ranking official
officer below the rank of major; company officer
medical officer
government soldier; officers and other ranks; officers and enlisted
investigator; interrogator
government district
national; governmental
government and people; government and private sector; public and private sector
lower government office (ritsuryo system); servant of a higher ranking person (during the middle ages); retainer; servant of an urban family; serf
the five sense organs
government official
bureaucratic organization; bureaucracy
plainclothes police officer
new bureaucrats; right-wing, pro-military bureaucrats who gained prominence in the Home Ministry after the Manchurian Incident (1931)
government service; government employ
Secretary of Defence (Defense)
government-regulated organization or facility, etc. (organisation)
official daily gazette; official telegram
sense organ
having no special rank or title
public relations officer
government management
government permission; official licence; official license; government permit
reproductive organ; reproductive system
government office; government agency
bureaucracy
(person of) high rank and office (exalted station); persons in high positions
official interpreter
Department of Divinities (1868-1871); (arch.) Department of Worship (under the ritsuryo system)
government-owned; state-owned
government school
corrupt policeman; dirty cop
government-issued goods
internal sense; public official stationed in the capital (under the ritsuryo system)
semi-governmental; semi-official
official responsible for court ceremonies
government expense
official position or title
Prime Minister's official residence
finance official
provisional administrator in occupied territory during WWII
rank and official position
national treasury; warehouse owned by the government
government-manufactured
attorney general; attorney-general
senior military official
being out of office; lacking a title
public official stationed outside the capital (under the ritsuryo system)
Ministry of State (Zhou-dynasty China)
all the officials, both military and civil
subordinate official; government clerk
governmental authority
government post and court rank
emperor's aide-de-camp
inspector; censor
central government agencies; central bureaucracy
instructor at a correctional facility (esp. juvenile detention centre)
deputy minister; assistant minister
government office; public office; government official
immigration officer; immigration inspector
official rank
government (office)
official publication; government publication; book belonging to a government office
civil and military officers
official who arranges festival and rites
dismissal; discharge
Director General of (former) Defence Agency (Defense)
competent authorities; supervisory authority
government or official circles; official quarters
official use; government business
quarantine inspector
(prefectural) school inspector
government funds
administrative law judge; appeal examiner (e.g. in patents)
exhibition sponsored by the government
government supply; government issue
mounted police officer
commercial attache
official orders
government-owned ship
bureaucratic government
office-seeking
a tax official; a revenue officer
Chief Cabinet Secretary (1879-1947)
hieratic (ancient Egyptian script)
appraiser; assessor
secretary (government)
six ministries (of Zhou-dynasty China)
official seal
administrator of a manor; village headman (Edo period)
government and public offices; public agency
unified effort of government and private sector
dismissing a government official
Ministry of Justice (Zhou-dynasty China)
government land; public land
court officer (from the Imperial Household Department)
governmentally or nationally established or run
military police; MP
chronicler
governmental porcelain furnace
accountant; treasurer
bureaucratization; bureaucratisation
putting the officials and bureaucrats above the people; treating the governors as more important than the governed; statism
government property; taxes and other fees paid by the provinces to the government (ritsuryo system)
Director of National Intelligence (USA); DNI
holding office
might is right; history is written by the victors; winners are always right and losers are always in the wrong
civilian and military man
official residence (for public servants)
official Confucian teacher
government-run enterprise
four administrative positions (of the ritsuryo system: kami, suke, jou, sakan)
Ministry of War (Zhou-dynasty China)
vestigial (rudimentary) organ
administrative office; government agency
Director General of Science and Technology Agency
industry, government and academia
Director General of Environment Agency
government agencies concerned with ...
government-appointed
initiative taken by bureaucrats in the drafting of government policies and bills (rather than by politicians)
constellation (in ancient China; important constellations were then used to divide the ecliptic into 28 "mansions")
Oversight Department (division of the daijokan responsible for controlling central and provincial governmental offices)
blind official who specialized as a musician, masseur or acupuncturist (abolished in 1871)
official demand
official government rank and salary; government stipend
student studying abroad at government expense
collusive bidding at the initiative of government agencies
Tokugawa Yoshinobu's resignation as Minister of the Interior and the abandonment of the Shogunate's territories (during the Meiji Restoration)
studying abroad at government expense
secretariat councillor; assistant vice-minister; deputy director-general
supernumerary official
to enter the government service
corrupt government official
Conference of Administrative Vice-Ministers
Supreme Commander for the Allied Powers (in Japan); SCAP
General Headquarters (office of the Supreme Commander of the Allied Powers); GHQ
Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees; UNHCR
official (government) postcard; postal card
articulatory organ (i.e. the tongue, teeth, lips, etc.)
probationary diplomat
functional group
Cabinet Secretariat classified fund; secret Cabinet expenses
Ministry of Rites (Zhou-dynasty China)
state-sponsored temples, particularly those favored and protected by the shogunate during the Kamakura period
rules which officials must follow
government office
petty official responsible for collecting public gossip and presenting it to the king (in ancient China)
government publication; Chinese textbook (published by the Edo shogunate)
one's former post
government business
official publication; public documents
regional administrator; local government official
military officer attached to embassy
body without organs (philosophical concept); BwO
official holding a lifetime appointment
Ministry of Civil Administration and Social Welfare (Zhou-dynasty China)
General Headquarters (office of the Supreme Commander of the Allied Powers); GHQ
public relations officer; spokesman; spokesperson
sound-producing organ (i.e. speech organs of mammals, wings of insects)
Director-General of the Cabinet Legislation Bureau
industry-academic-government (cooperation, etc.)
special prosecutor (e.g. United States); special counsel
Director General of Economic Planning Agency
direct administration by the government
organ transplantation
parliamentary councillor; parliamentary councilor
Oversight Department of the Left (overseeing the Ministries of Central Affairs, Ceremonies, Civil Administration and Popular Affairs) (ritsuryo system)
low-caste servants of public ministries (in the ritsuryō system)
retirement at one's own request
debureaucratization; curtailing the power of the bureaucracy
politicians, business leaders and bureaucrats; the worlds of politics, big business and bureaucracy
laxity in official discipline; civil service corruption
removal from office
powerful official; powerful office; influential position; holding of concurrent (official) posts; concurrent post; one's second post
Secretary of Defence (Defense)
general government office
Qing Mandarin (standard variety of Chinese spoken by official classes during the Qing dynasty); Mandarin (branch of Chinese spoken in northern and southwestern China)
vestibular system; vestibular organs
(being granted) the privileges of one's former (official) post
Administrative Management Agency
cooperation between the private and public sectors
external sense
Beijing dialect of Standard Chinese (as spoken during the Qing dynasty)
drug czar; Director of the White House Office of National Drug Control Policy; ONDCP
Director General of National Land Agency
reserve officers' cadet school
proper authorities; authorities concerned
Director General of Prime Minister's Office
drillmaster; drill instructor
doyen of the diplomatic corps
chief justice of the Court of Final Appeal of Hong Kong
high official suspected of corruption
bureaucrats entertaining bureaucrats using public funds
Assistant Secretary of State
official appointed by the Emperor
government agency providing public services; government agency involved in public enterprise
semiofficial paper
tactile organ; touch organ
Imperial Shrine of Special Status (receiving some support from the Imperial Household Department)
official whose appointment and dismissal requires Imperial acknowledgement (acknowledgment)
disparity (of income, pensions, etc.) between public and private employees
diplomat; diplomatist
Qing-dynasty system assigning equal numbers of Manchurians and Han Chinese to central government agencies
military authorities
parliamentary under-secretary
public official stationed in the capital (under the ritsuryo system)
shrine receiving offerings from the Bureau of Divinities (pre-Meiji) or the Imperial Household Department (post-Meiji)
maritime authority; marine office
empty government position; dismissing a government official
government-controlled media
cosmic censorship hypothesis; cosmic censorship conjecture
former government official
holding of concurrent (official) posts; concurrent post
state-owned rice (ritsuryo system)
government compilation
court musician
government office; government agency
administrative government agency; policy-making government agency
controlling office; competent (governmental) authorities
disciplinary dismissal; disciplinary discharge
government official (esp. one of low to medium rank); public servant
regional administrator; local government official
state-owned land; crown land (UK, Australia, etc.)
government position (or office) not specified in the administrative code of the ritsuryo
government-owned slave