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
Kanji used
section
Pitch accent
Top 1100
Used in vocabulary (289 in total)
all; entire; whole; altogether
portion; section; part
force; unit; corps; squad; troops; party
one part; one portion; one section; one copy (e.g. of a document)
subordinate person
head (chief, director) of a section or department; head of a (school) club; head of a (school) team
interior; inside; internal
club activities; extracurricular activities
headquarters; head office; main office
head; cranium; cephalic
staff; member (club, society, etc.)
management; (executive) staff; leaders; leadership; top brass; upper echelons
outside (e.g. of a building); exterior; outside (of a group, company, etc.); outside world
branch; subdivision
parts; accessories; components
southern part; the south (of a region)
part (esp. of the body); region; site; cut (of meat)
top brass; upper echelon; higher-ups; top management; upper reaches; top of the pile
one's post; one's station; department; bureau; section
tribe; clan; house
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
central part; heart (of a city)
top part; surface
secret place; genitals
class; heading; group; category
club activities; extracurricular activities
literary club (e.g. at school); literary section (e.g. newspaper)
senior high school (esp. the senior high school section of a school that also encompasses other grades)
editorial department
middle school (esp. the middle school section of a school that also encompasses other grades); junior high school
details; particulars
track and field club
military authorities; army circles
sports club (e.g. at school); sports department (e.g. in a newspaper)
soccer club (at a school); football club
basketball club
western part; the west (of a region); the West (United States)
information bureau; intelligence department
research division; research club (e.g. at school, university)
lower part; substructure; subordinate (office); good and faithful servant
(the) executive; administration; leadership
deepest part; deepest portion; depths (of the ocean etc.); innermost
centre; center; middle
concert band (as a school activity); wind ensemble
medical faculty
department of a university; undergraduate (course, program, etc.)
commanding officer
calvaria; area at top of head; parietal
Ministry of War (Tang-dynasty China)
dark side (of nature, town, etc.)
all parts; various parts; every department
(Meiji era) official responsible for court ceremonies
Ministry of Revenue (Tang-dynasty China)
pupils who are not members of any school club; (lit.) go-home club
the genital area
urban area; urban district
leg; leg portion; foot (of a page)
club budget; club expense
school store; co-op
the staff; inside the department
part; section; affected part (of the body); private parts; genitals
Development Department
personnel department
front part; fore; front
section meeting
center; centre; middle; Chūbu region (incl. Aichi, Nagano, Shizuoka, Niigata, Toyama, Ishikawa, Fukui, Yamanashi and Gifu prefectures)
Ministry of Justice (in Tang-dynasty China)
commanding officer
department (faculty) of literature
girls' or women's division or section
second division; secondary division
division (of company); operations department
mountainous region
general affairs department (bureau); executive section
law department; law school
number of copies; circulation
executives; top management; governing body
two parts; two copies; the second part
base; foundation
base; bottom
department (or school) of technology, engineering or science
coastal region; coastal area; coastline
northwestern part; the northwest
accounting department
southwestern part; the southwest
research division; inquiry section
northeastern part; the northeast
planning department
wooden part; xylem
three parts; three copies
inner-city area; city center
safety department; security department
inland districts; inland areas
public relations section or department
two parts; two copies; the second part
six copies; Buddhist pilgrim (carrying 66 copies of the Lotus Sutra to be left at sites across Japan)
Public Safety Bureau (of the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department); Special Branch (police); Ministry of Public Security (China)
economics department; economics school
tail; caudal
table tennis club; ping-pong club
local news section; the city desk
Ministry of Works (Tang-dynasty China)
mountaineering club; mountain area
news department
southeastern part; the southeast
special investigation department
Naval General Staff
advertising department; public relations department; PR department
lengthy (of a book, etc.); voluminous; most (e.g. most part); greater; fairly
lengthy (of a book, etc.); voluminous; most (e.g. most part); greater; fairly
Ministry of Education, Science and Culture (1871-2001)
department of science
outside (an organization, department, etc.)
three parts; three copies
department; bureau; section; part
component; part; material; member
food (on a table) (esp. a small Japanese table); dinner; cover (in a restaurant); cook; chef; person who prepares food
sales department
legal office; law office; legal department
torso; body; trunk
daytime; noon period of the day; matinee
lowest part; bottom (or footer) of a page, computer screen, on-screen window, etc.
department of agriculture
changing post (department, club, etc.)
pharmaceutical department; college of pharmacy
police affairs department; police headquarters department which handles human resources, finance, etc.
rural district; farming area
phase; aspect; field; side
bulky; massive; thick; heavy
Ministry of Rites (Tang-dynasty China)
groin; groin region; inguinal region
basketball club
badminton club
cervix uteri; uterine cervix; neck of the uterus
promotion department; development department; enhancement department
two parts; both parts; both realms (i.e. the Diamond Realm and the Womb Realm); Shinto-Buddhist amalgamation
Music Department (part of the Board of Ceremonies of the Imperial Household Agency)
publishing department
foot region
urban areas
extrusion; protrusion; bulge; projecting part; overhang
business school (in a university); faculty of commerce
Ministry of Religious Education (1872-1877)
radical (of a kanji character)
ministry in charge of military affairs (ritsuryo period); military command body (early Meiji period)
military government
periphery; margin; rim; penumbra
groin; groin region; inguinal region
diplomatic mission
underlined part
treble; high singing voice
club journal; club notebook
executives; top management; governing body
real part (of complex number)
the eight legions (devas, nagas, yaksas, gandharvas, asuras, garudas, kimnaras, mahoragas)
external genitalia (esp. female); vulva
college of liberal arts (general education); liberal arts school
forehead; frontal
liaison department; public relations department
night-school season
elementary school (esp. the elementary school section of a school that also encompasses other grades); primary school
imaginary part (of complex number)
general affairs department (e.g. in a company); operations department
main part; complete subject; grammatical subject
copyreading department
Nikaya (early sectarian) Buddhism
rural districts; counties
Buddhist pilgrim (carrying 66 copies of the Lotus Sutra to be left at sites across Japan)
Sthaviravada (early Buddhist movement)
island area; insular region
faculty of humanities
remainder; the rest
(musical) exposition
people belonging to a hereditary occupation group (Yamato period)
beginning part; initial part; nose cone (missile)
lower brain; base of the brain
out-of-store sales department
(of a book, etc.) short
Mahasamghika (early Buddhist movement)
five fundamental texts of Ise Shinto
Inspectorate General of Military Training (1898-1945)
Ministry of Popular Affairs (1869-1871); Ministry of Popular Affairs (under the ritsuryo system)
neck (region)
seat (of chair, bench, etc.); seat base
corpus uteri; uterine body; body of the uterus
gastric region
foreign news desk
assign to sections; division
weld; weld zone; welded part
controlling element; actuator; operating portion
woody parts (of plant); xylem
one's post; one's station; department; bureau; section
island area; insular region
elbow; elbow-shaped bend
classification
address field; address part
processor; handler
phloem; inner bark
neuromuscular junction; myoneural junction
collating (printing)
groin; groin region; inguinal region
pars triangularis; triangular area; triangular part of inferior frontal gyrus
kanji "shell" radical (154)
division header
meroblastic cleavage; partial cleavage
substring; subsequence
end of procedure division
path overhead section
user part
Voigt element (combination of spring and viscous damper)
First Section of the Tokyo Stock Exchange
mail-order department; branch store
part number; PN
exponent portion; characteristic (e.g. in floating-point representation)
content portion
suburban districts
mantissa; significand
initialization section
storage unit; memory unit
four orders of Buddhist followers (monks, nuns, male lay devotees and female lay devotees)
Immunology Department; Department of Immunology
Litigation Department (of the Ministry of Justice)
pulmonary apex region; apical pulmonary region
rotator interval; rotator cuff interval
Examples (19 in total)
I belong to the tennis club.
Welcome to the home cooking club.
He belongs to the camera club.