かん
Meanings
Noun
1. government service; the bureaucracy
Kanji used
bureaucrat
Pitch accent
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Used in vocabulary (211 in total)
Shinto priest
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
military officer; naval officer
police investigator; investigator
medical officer
minister's secretary
high official
the senses; sensuality; carnality
administrator; director; commissioner
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)
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
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
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
case worker; case officer
parliamentary official
inspector; examiner; auditor
inspector; auditor; examiner; comptroller
examiner; investigator; inquisitor; agent
executive officer; administrative official
government office; government agency; authorities
deputy secretary (government); deputy director
plasterer
legal officer; legal office; judge advocate (army); praetor; pretor
councillor; councilor
government secretariat
Assistant Vice-Minister; Deputy Director-General; Councillor
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)
government and municipal offices; public agencies
high-ranking official
medical officer
investigator; interrogator
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
government service; government employ
government service; government employ
government-regulated organization or facility, etc. (organisation)
sense organ
public relations officer
reproductive organ; reproductive system
bureaucracy
official interpreter
Department of Divinities (1868-1871); (arch.) Department of Worship (under the ritsuryo system)
government-owned; state-owned
government school
internal sense; public official stationed in the capital (under the ritsuryo system)
semi-governmental; semi-official
official responsible for court ceremonies
official position or title
finance official
rank and official position
government-manufactured
being out of office; lacking a title
Ministry of State (Zhou-dynasty China)
governmental authority
government post and court rank
inspector; censor
immigration officer; immigration inspector
official rank
civil and military officers
dismissal; discharge
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
commercial attache
official orders
office-seeking
a tax official; a revenue officer
appraiser; assessor
official seal
administrator of a manor; village headman (Edo period)
government and public offices; public agency
dismissing a government official
government land; public land
court officer (from the Imperial Household Department)
military police; MP
chronicler
official in charge
accountant; treasurer
government property; taxes and other fees paid by the provinces to the government (ritsuryo system)
holding office
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)
government-appointed
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 government rank and salary; government stipend
investigator; interrogator
supernumerary official
to enter the government service
state-sponsored temples, particularly those favored and protected by the shogunate during the Kamakura period
rules which officials must follow
government office
investigator; interrogator
one's former post
government business
regional administrator; local government official
official holding a lifetime appointment
Ministry of Civil Administration and Social Welfare (Zhou-dynasty China)
sound-producing organ (i.e. speech organs of mammals, wings of insects)
Director-General of the Cabinet Legislation Bureau
Director-General of the Cabinet Legislation Bureau
industry-academic-government (cooperation, etc.)
direct administration by the government
parliamentary councillor; parliamentary councilor
low-caste servants of public ministries (in the ritsuryō system)
politicians, business leaders and bureaucrats; the worlds of politics, big business and bureaucracy
powerful official; powerful office; influential position; holding of concurrent (official) posts; concurrent post; one's second post
administrator of a manor; village headman (Edo period)
Oversight Department (division of the daijokan responsible for controlling central and provincial governmental offices)
Qing Mandarin (standard variety of Chinese spoken by official classes during the Qing dynasty); Mandarin (branch of Chinese spoken in northern and southwestern China)
cooperation between the private and public sectors
external sense
doyen of the diplomatic corps
bureaucrats entertaining bureaucrats using public funds
official appointed by the Emperor
official whose appointment and dismissal requires Imperial acknowledgement (acknowledgment)
diplomat; diplomatist
parliamentary under-secretary
public official stationed in the capital (under the ritsuryo system)
public official stationed in the capital (under the ritsuryo system)
former government official
holding of concurrent (official) posts; concurrent post
government compilation
disciplinary dismissal; disciplinary discharge
government official (esp. one of low to medium rank); public servant
government official (esp. one of low to medium rank); public servant
regional administrator; local government official
government-owned slave