Meanings
Noun
Suffix
1. department (in an organization); division; bureau
higher than a 課
2. club
3. part; component; element
4. category
Counter
5. counter for copies of a newspaper or magazine
Alt. forms
Pitch accent
Top 28400
Used in vocabulary (282 in total)
club budget; club expense
urban areas
front part; fore; front
two parts; two copies; the second part
radical (of a kanji character)
beginning part; initial part; nose cone (missile)
portion; section; part
staff; member (club, society, etc.)
bulky; massive; thick; heavy
seat (of chair, bench, etc.); seat base
subordinate person
all; entire; whole; altogether
southern part; the south (of a region)
dark side (of nature, town, etc.)
lengthy (of a book, etc.); voluminous; most (e.g. most part); greater; fairly
club activities; extracurricular activities
base; foundation
parts; accessories; components
number of copies; circulation
top part; surface
Ministry of Education, Science and Culture (1871-2001)
interior; inside; internal
head (chief, director) of a section or department; head of a (school) club; head of a (school) team
department (faculty) of literature
clubroom
western part; the west (of a region); the West (United States)
(Meiji era) official responsible for court ceremonies
management; (executive) staff; leaders; leadership; top brass; upper echelons
drama club (e.g. at school); dramatic society
division (of a larger group); branch; field; class (subclass); group; category
baseball club (at a university, corporation, etc.); baseball team
class; heading; group; category
Ministry of War (Tang-dynasty China)
section meeting
pupils who are not members of any school club; (lit.) go-home club
the genital area
center; centre; middle; Chūbu region (incl. Aichi, Nagano, Shizuoka, Niigata, Toyama, Ishikawa, Fukui, Yamanashi and Gifu prefectures)
six copies; Buddhist pilgrim (carrying 66 copies of the Lotus Sutra to be left at sites across Japan)
people belonging to a hereditary occupation group (Yamato period)
force; unit; corps; squad; troops; party
one part; one portion; one section; one copy (e.g. of a document)
head; cranium; cephalic
headquarters; head office; main office
bulky; massive; thick; heavy
outside (e.g. of a building); exterior; outside (of a group, company, etc.); outside world
back of head
branch; subdivision
part (esp. of the body); region; site; cut (of meat)
headquarters
top brass; upper echelon; higher-ups; top management; upper reaches; top of the pile
tribe; clan; house
one's post; one's station; department; bureau; section
abdomen
central part; heart (of a city)
secret place; genitals
club activities; extracurricular activities
senior high school (esp. the senior high school section of a school that also encompasses other grades)
literary club (e.g. at school); literary section (e.g. newspaper)
middle school (esp. the middle school section of a school that also encompasses other grades); junior high school
editorial department
military authorities; army circles
details; particulars
track and field club
sports club (e.g. at school); sports department (e.g. in a newspaper)
soccer club (at a school); football club
basketball club
information bureau; intelligence department
lower part; substructure; subordinate (office); good and faithful servant
deepest part; deepest portion; depths (of the ocean etc.); innermost
research division; research club (e.g. at school, university)
centre; center; middle
(the) executive; administration; leadership
concert band (as a school activity); wind ensemble
commanding officer
calvaria; area at top of head; parietal
medical faculty
department of a university; undergraduate (course, program, etc.)
all parts; various parts; every department
Ministry of Revenue (Tang-dynasty China)
urban area; urban district
leg; leg portion; foot (of a page)
sales department
the staff; inside the department
school store; co-op
part; section; affected part (of the body); private parts; genitals
Development Department
central part
personnel department
Ministry of Justice (in Tang-dynasty China)
commanding officer
neck (region)
girls' or women's division or section
second division; secondary division
three parts; three copies
mountainous region
executives; top management; governing body
division (of company); operations department
law department; law school
general affairs department (bureau); executive section
base; bottom
northwestern part; the northwest
femur (femora)
southwestern part; the southwest
coastal region; coastal area; coastline
department (or school) of technology, engineering or science
northeastern part; the northeast
accounting department
research division; inquiry section
planning department
inner-city area; city center
wooden part; xylem
safety department; security department
inland districts; inland areas
public relations section or department
rugby club
tail; caudal
economics department; economics school
Public Safety Bureau (of the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department); Special Branch (police); Ministry of Public Security (China)
southeastern part; the southeast
mountaineering club; mountain area
local news section; the city desk
table tennis club; ping-pong club
Naval General Staff
Ministry of Works (Tang-dynasty China)
news department
special investigation department
leadership
advertising department; public relations department; PR department
boxing club
department of science
department; bureau; section; part
lengthy (of a book, etc.); voluminous; most (e.g. most part); greater; fairly
component; part; material; member
badminton club
food (on a table) (esp. a small Japanese table); dinner; cover (in a restaurant); cook; chef; person who prepares food
torso; body; trunk
sales department
legal office; law office; legal department
daytime; noon period of the day; matinee
groin; groin region; inguinal region
lowest part; bottom (or footer) of a page, computer screen, on-screen window, etc.
department of agriculture
changing post (department, club, etc.)
rural district; farming area
outside (an organization, department, etc.)
pharmaceutical department; college of pharmacy
police affairs department; police headquarters department which handles human resources, finance, etc.
phase; aspect; field; side
Ministry of Rites (Tang-dynasty China)
edible part
faculty of education
introduction
basketball club
badminton club
cervix uteri; uterine cervix; neck of the uterus
promotion department; development department; enhancement department
publishing department
two parts; both parts; both realms (i.e. the Diamond Realm and the Womb Realm); Shinto-Buddhist amalgamation
foot region
extrusion; protrusion; bulge; projecting part; overhang
business school (in a university); faculty of commerce
commissariat
the side
ministry in charge of military affairs (ritsuryo period); military command body (early Meiji period)
Ministry of Religious Education (1872-1877)
bass register
periphery; margin; rim; penumbra
diplomatic mission
military government
underlined part
treble; high singing voice
club journal; club notebook
real part (of complex number)
the eight legions (devas, nagas, yaksas, gandharvas, asuras, garudas, kimnaras, mahoragas)
external genitalia (esp. female); vulva
forehead; frontal
college of liberal arts (general education); liberal arts school
liaison department; public relations department
night-school season
general affairs department (e.g. in a company); operations department
elementary school (esp. the elementary school section of a school that also encompasses other grades); primary school
imaginary part (of complex number)
tetralogy
tetralogy
main part; complete subject; grammatical subject
controller
copyreading department
Nikaya (early sectarian) Buddhism
rural districts; counties
island area; insular region
Buddhist pilgrim (carrying 66 copies of the Lotus Sutra to be left at sites across Japan)
remainder; the rest
faculty of humanities
part number; PN
(musical) exposition
Sthaviravada (early Buddhist movement)
ileocecum
bend; flexure
lower brain; base of the brain
soft tissue
Music Department (part of the Board of Ceremonies of the Imperial Household Agency)
out-of-store sales department
accompaniment
four-part harmony
Mahasamghika (early Buddhist movement)
five fundamental texts of Ise Shinto
Inspectorate General of Military Training (1898-1945)
Ministry of Popular Affairs (under the ritsuryo system)
punch station
sorting
corpus uteri; uterine body; body of the uterus
gastric region
assign to sections; division
classification
foreign news desk
body part
weld; weld zone; welded part
predicate
controlling element; actuator; operating portion
transmitter
variant part
(of a book, etc.) short
faculty of informatics
woody parts (of plant); xylem
miscellany
elbow; elbow-shaped bend
collating (printing)
partial eclipse
processor; handler
phloem; inner bark
address field; address part
kanji "shell" radical (154)
pars triangularis; triangular area; triangular part of inferior frontal gyrus
neuromuscular junction; myoneural junction
mantissa; significand
exponent portion; characteristic (e.g. in floating-point representation)
mail-order department; branch store
Litigation Department (of the Ministry of Justice)
First Section of the Tokyo Stock Exchange
Immunology Department; Department of Immunology
suburban districts
storage unit; memory unit
four orders of Buddhist followers (monks, nuns, male lay devotees and female lay devotees)
tape transport
path overhead section
user part
operation part
generic content portion description
read station
end of procedure division
initialization section
read station
content portion
division header
substring; subsequence
physical medium dependent
document class description
Voigt element (combination of spring and viscous damper)
meroblastic cleavage; partial cleavage
temporoparietal junction; TPJ
pulmonary apex region; apical pulmonary region
part number; PN
rotator interval; rotator cuff interval
Examples (21 in total)
I belong to the tennis club.
Welcome to the home cooking club.
He belongs to the camera club.