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局きょく
Meanings
Noun
Suffix
1. bureau; department
I am a member of the Security Bureau.
2. office (e.g. post, telephone); broadcasting station (e.g. television, radio); channel; exchange
It's being broadcast on all sorts of stations.
3. affair; situation
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Noun
Suffix
4. game (of go, shogi, etc.)
Some years, you end up playing fewer than ten games.
Kanji used
局
bureau
Pitch accent
きょ
く
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Used in vocabulary (177 in total)
bureau director; office chief
position in a game; state of the game; situation; stage; phase
(playing a) game (of go, shogi, etc.)
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Examples (10 in total)
It was news from the local station.
It's being broadcast on all sorts of stations.
I am a member of the Security Bureau.
The number of stations broadcasting is also small.
Where is the Tokyo patent office?
I received word from the local fire station.
The next game will be the decisive battle, but how confident are you?
In the end, we played two more games after that before I finally got in the bath.
Some years, you end up playing fewer than ten games.
It may be that the working environment is starting to deteriorate because the number of personnel at the station has decreased.