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Jōyō kanji, Taught in grade 3

JLPT level: N3

286 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Stroke count: 7

Meaning: bureau, board, office, affair, conclusion, court lady, lady-in-waiting, her apartment

Kunyomi: つぼね

Onyomi: キョク

Composition: 尸 句

局

Radical

Radical: 尸

Reading: しかばね

Meaning: corpse

Strokes: 3

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Examples

Examples with audio

局長(きょくちょう)   bureau director, office chief

局面(きょくめん)   checkerboard, aspect, situation

破局(はきょく)   catastrophe, cataclysm

戦局(せんきょく)   the state of the war

政局(せいきょく)   political situation

結局(けっきょく)   after all, eventually

薬局(やっきょく)   pharmacy, drugstore

水道局(すいどうきょく)   water bureau or department

郵便局(ゆうびんきょく)   post office

放送局(ほうそうきょく)   broadcasting office

局地的な(きょくちてきな)   local

局限する(きょくげんする)   limit, localize

Onyomi Examples

局 (キョク) bureau, department, office (e.g. post, telephone), broadcasting station (e.g. television, radio), channel, exchange, affair, situation, game (of go, shogi, etc.)

局員 (キョクイン) clerk, (bureau, post-office) staff

医局 (イキョク) medical office (esp. in a hospital), doctor's office

開局 (カイキョク) opening (of a broadcasting station, post office, bureau, etc.), establishment

Kunyomi Examples

局 (つぼね) court lady (Heian period), lady-in-waiting, separate room in a palace (esp. for a lady; Heian period), room for a very low class prostitute, very low class prostitute

局女郎 (つぼねじょろう) prostitute of the lowest class (Edo period)

御局 (おつぼね) court lady with her own private chamber or office, low-class prostitute (Edo period)

お局 (おつぼね) senior female worker who supervises junior employees in a domineering fashion

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