Kanji

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:

Radical

Radical:

Reading: しかばね

Meaning: corpse

Strokes: 3

Examples

Examples with audio

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

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

(はきょく)   catastrophe, cataclysm

(せんきょく)   the state of the war

(せいきょく)   political situation

(けっきょく)   after all, eventually

(やっきょく)   pharmacy, drugstore

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

郵便(ゆうびんきょく)   post office

放送(ほうそうきょく)   broadcasting office

地的な(きょくちてきな)   local

限する(きょくげんする)   limit, localize

Onyomi Examples

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.)

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

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

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

Kunyomi Examples

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

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

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

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