Keyword
bureaucrat
Info
FrequencyTop 400-500
Type
Kyōiku (4th grade) 
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KankenLevel 7
Heisig1363
Readings
かん
(67%)
Composed of
roof with a chimney
guy with a beer belly
Mnemonic

A typical bureaucrat is a guy with a beer belly that sits under a roof with a chimney all day doing paperwork.

Used in kanji (6 in total)
public building
pipe
coffin
sedge (a type of plant)
Used in vocabulary (501 in total)
police officer; policeman; policewoman
government; government service; the bureaucracy; government post; government official
police officer; policeman; constable
commandant; commanding officer; general
commander; commanding officer; CO
(Shinto) priest
secretary (government); director; chief
teacher; instructor; professor
superior officer
Chief Cabinet Secretary (Japan); Chief of Staff (to the President, Prime Minister, etc.); Cabinet Secretary; Executive Secretary
bureaucrat; government official; bureaucracy
civil official
high official
adjutant; aide; aide-de-camp
official residence (e.g. of the prime minister)
court lady; lady-in-waiting
local governor (Edo period); local magistrate; bailiff; deputy official (Middle Ages); acting administrator
press officer; press secretary
military officer; naval officer
vice-minister; undersecretary
government official; public servant; civil servant
private secretary
(police) investigator
the senses; sensuality; carnality
public prosecutor
Japanese Self-Defense Force official; Self-Defense Force official
sensual; voluptuous; sexy; arousing
commander-in-chief; supreme commander
permanent vice-president; undersecretary; vice-minister
(squad of) police; police force
parliamentary official
Secretary of Defence (Defense)
government service; entering government service; finding a new lord or master to serve (of a ronin)
administrator; director; commissioner
examiner; investigator; inquisitor; agent
government and people; government and private sector; public and private sector
high (government) official
administrative official; secretary; commissioner
non-commissioned officer; petty officer
inspector; supervisor
prison officer; corrections officer; penal officer; prison guard; jailor; warder
deputy secretary (government); deputy director
interviewer (for job, school, etc. interviews)
general; admiral
Assistant Vice-Minister; Deputy Director-General; Councillor
officials; authorities
(air traffic) controller
official post; regular post; principal post (as opposed to secondary post); I (of someone in government or the civil service)
councillor; councilor
government service; official position; civil service
Secretary of the Treasury (USA); Treasury Secretary
government office; government agency; authorities
official in charge
case worker; case officer
official residence
office and rank; an official rank
appointment (to an office); investiture; commission
Commander-in-Chief; C-in-C
government forces; loyalist army
peace officer; sheriff
consul (of the Roman republic)
retirement from office
attorney general; attorney-general
prime minister's official residence
erotic novel; amorous novel; pornographic novel
petty official; I; me
inspector; examiner; auditor
technical official; technical officer
academic advisor (e.g. at a university research lab)
government and municipal offices; public agencies
medical officer
executive officer; administrative official
judge; magistrate; (arch.) 3rd grade official (ritsuryō system); (arch.) assistant district officer; (arch.) inspector
plasterer
special prosecutor (e.g. United States); special counsel
Chief Cabinet Secretary
quarantine inspector
military cadet; officer cadet
inspector; auditor; examiner; comptroller
Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees; UNHCR
official uniform; official dress
magistrate's office (Edo period); territory under a magistrate's jurisdiction
public relations officer
field officer
government secretariat
elite bureaucrat; high government official; high-ranking bureaucrat; senior government official
Assistant Secretary of State
official daily gazette; government newsletter; official telegram
common hill mynah (Gracula religiosa); hill myna; myna bird
chief of staff (esp. of US president)
examiner (e.g. patent examiner)
might is right; history is written by the victors
collusive bidding at the initiative of government agencies
unified effort of government and private sector
finance official
government district
Director of National Intelligence (USA); DNI
councillor; councilor
special agent; special investigator
investigator; interrogator
legal officer; legal office; judge advocate (army); praetor (Roman magistrate); pretor
officer of the court
medical officer
high-ranking official
bureaucratic organization; bureaucracy
all the officials
Director-General of the Cabinet Legislation Bureau
plainclothes police officer
officer below the rank of major; company officer
Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights; OHCHR
the five sense organs
Grand Council of State (1868-1885); Department of State (under the ritsuryō system)
government-manufactured
(army) military academy; Imperial Japanese Army Academy
government management
reproductive organ; reproductive system
national; founded by the government
government service; government employ
competent authorities; supervisory authority
Director General of (former) Defence Agency (Defense)
central government agencies; central bureaucracy
lower government office (ritsuryō system); servant of a higher ranking person (during the middle ages); retainer; servant of an urban family; serf
government official
government soldier; officers and other ranks; officers and enlisted
having no special rank or title
senior military official
government-regulated organization or facility, etc. (organisation)
bureaucratic world; government circles
secretariat councillor; assistant vice-minister; deputy director-general
semi-governmental; semi-official
office; official; chief; head
(person of) high rank and office (exalted station); persons in high positions
government office; government agency
Prime Minister's official residence
industry, government and academia
sympathy for a tragic hero; rooting for the underdog
Department of Divinities (1868-1871); Department of Worship (under the ritsuryō system)
Cabinet Secretariat classified fund; secret Cabinet expenses
government-issued goods
member of the Maritime Self-Defense Force; MSDF official
industry-academic-government (cooperation, etc.)
government expense
deputy minister; assistant minister
government permission; official licence; official license; government permit
sense organ; sensory organ
United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees; UNHCR
official position or title
all the officials, both military and civil
government-owned; state-owned
official responsible for court ceremonies
government school
immigration officer; immigration inspector
two departments (under the ritsuryō system: the Dept. of State and the Dept. of Worship)
official interpreter
corrupt policeman; dirty cop
internal sense; public official stationed in the capital (under the ritsuryō system)
being out of office; lacking a title
tribune (of ancient Rome)
subordinate official; government clerk
governmental authority
government post and court rank
sympathy for a tragic hero; rooting for the underdog
new bureaucrats; right-wing, pro-military bureaucrats who gained prominence in the Home Ministry after the Manchurian Incident (1931)
inspector; censor
emperor's aide-de-camp
Director General of Science and Technology Agency
initiative taken by bureaucrats in the drafting of government policies and bills (rather than by politicians)
civil and military officers
official use; government business
Ministry of Works (Zhou dynasty China)
rank and official position
Director General of Economic Planning Agency
provisional administrator in occupied territory during WWII
public official stationed outside the capital (under the ritsuryō system)
government (office)
official rank
government or official circles; official quarters
might is right; history is written by the victors; winners are always right and losers are always in the wrong; (lit.) if you win you are the loyalist army, if you lose you are the rebel army
bureaucratic government
national treasury; warehouse owned by the government
instructor at a correctional facility (esp. juvenile detention centre)
military police; MP
secretary (government)
official who arranges festival and rites
dismissal; discharge
Director General of Environment Agency
a tax official; a revenue officer
(prefectural) school inspector
global policeman (e.g. the USA); world police
administrative law judge; appeal examiner (e.g. in patents)
official orders
government supply; government issue
Ministry of State (Zhou dynasty China)
government office; public office; government official
official publication; government publication; book belonging to a government office
government and public offices; public agency
mounted police officer
exhibition sponsored by the government
government funds
commercial attache
office-seeking
Chief Cabinet Secretary (1879-1947)
government-established university; national university
rapporteur; reporter
putting the officials and bureaucrats above the people; treating the governors as more important than the governed; statism
hieratic (ancient Egyptian script)
appraiser; assessor
government-owned ship
official seal
six ministries (of Zhou dynasty China)
administrator of a manor; village headman (Edo period)
(United States) Air Force Academy
governmental porcelain furnace
Ministry of Justice (Zhou dynasty China)
dismissing a government official
debureaucratization; curtailing the power of the bureaucracy
government land; public land
governmentally or nationally established or run
bureaucratization; bureaucratisation
government business
court officer (from the Imperial Household Department)
chronicler
Director General of National Land Agency
justice of the Supreme Court; Supreme Court judge
to enter the government service
official in charge
undercover investigator
accountant; treasurer
politicians, business leaders and bureaucrats; the worlds of politics, big business and bureaucracy
official residence (for public servants)
politicians, business leaders and bureaucrats; the worlds of politics, big business and bureaucracy
government-run enterprise
vestigial (rudimentary) organ
marker; grader; scorer
Conference of Administrative Vice-Ministers
holding office
government property; taxes and other fees paid by the provinces to the government (ritsuryō system)
might is right; history is written by the victors; winners are always right and losers are always in the wrong; (lit.) if you win you are the loyalist army, if you lose you are the rebel army
undercover investigator
civilian and military man
four administrative positions (of the ritsuryō system: kami, suke, jou, sakan)
government-appointed
public relations officer; spokesman; spokesperson
Ministry of War (Zhou dynasty China)
Director General of Okinawa Development Agency
administrative office; government agency
official Confucian teacher
government agencies concerned with ...
blind official who specialized as a musician, masseur or acupuncturist (abolished in 1871)
(crime of) resisting an official; (offense of) resisting a public official executing their duties
official government rank and salary; government stipend
Oversight Department (under the Department of State of the ritsuryō system)
investigator; interrogator
official demand
studying abroad at government expense
disparity (of income, pensions, etc.) between public and private employees
politicians, business leaders and bureaucrats; the worlds of politics, big business and bureaucracy
Tokugawa Yoshinobu's resignation as Minister of the Interior and the abandonment of the Shogunate's territories (during the Meiji Restoration)
student studying abroad at government expense
undercover police; undercover cop
government office
Supreme Commander for the Allied Powers (in Japan); SCAP
supernumerary official
Director General of Prime Minister's Office
functional group
General Headquarters, Supreme Commander for the Allied Powers (1945-1952); GHQ
General Headquarters, Supreme Commander for the Allied Powers (1945-1952); GHQ
challenging a judge; challenge to a judge
probationary diplomat
official whose appointment and dismissal requires Imperial acknowledgement (acknowledgment)
chief of staff (esp. of US president)
bureaucratic world; government circles
rules which officials must follow
career as a government official; career as a public servant
petty official responsible for collecting public gossip and presenting it to the king (in ancient China)
articulatory organ (i.e. the tongue, teeth, lips, etc.)
Noncommissioned Officer Academy
corrupt government official
state-sponsored temples, particularly those favored and protected by the shogunate during the Kamakura period
official (government) postcard; postal card
Ministry of Rites (Zhou dynasty China)
organ transplantation
Oversight Department of the Left (overseeing the Ministries of Central Affairs, Ceremonies, Civil Administration and Popular Affairs; ritsuryō system)
government-controlled media
direct administration by the government
mamma (milk-secreting organ of female mammals)
administrative government agency; policy-making government agency
regional administrator; local government official
government publication; Chinese textbook (published by the Edo shogunate)
official translator; secretary-translator
military officer attached to embassy
official holding a lifetime appointment
government publication; Chinese textbook (published by the Edo shogunate)
official publication; public documents
constellation (in ancient China; important constellations were then used to divide the ecliptic into 28 "mansions")
politicians, business leaders and bureaucrats; the worlds of politics, big business and bureaucracy
Oversight Department (under the Department of State of the ritsuryō system)
low-caste servants of public ministries (in the ritsuryō system)
one's former post
sound-producing organ (i.e. speech organs of mammals, wings of insects)
parliamentary councillor; parliamentary councilor
bureaucrats entertaining bureaucrats using public funds
removal from office
associate judge; associate justice
Ministry of Civil Administration and Social Welfare (Zhou dynasty China)
laxity in official discipline; civil service corruption
investigator; interrogator
retirement at one's own request
official residence
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)
Secretary of Defence (Defense)
inspector (of taxes, etc.)
bureaucrats entertaining bureaucrats using public funds
Qing Mandarin (standard variety of Chinese spoken by official classes during the Qing dynasty); Mandarin (branch of Chinese spoken in northern and southwestern China)
controlling office; competent (governmental) authorities
former government official
military authorities
holding of concurrent (official) posts; concurrent post
parliamentary under-secretary
doyen of the diplomatic corps
proper authorities; authorities concerned
semiofficial paper
reserve officers' cadet school
official appointed by the Emperor
cooperation between the private and public sectors
Administrative Management Agency
court musician
general government office
government compilation
(being granted) the privileges of one's former (official) post
high official suspected of corruption
drug czar; Director of the White House Office of National Drug Control Policy; ONDCP
chief justice of the Court of Final Appeal of Hong Kong
government official (esp. one of low to medium rank); public servant
shrine receiving offerings from the Bureau of Divinities (pre-Meiji) or the Imperial Household Department (post-Meiji)
Imperial Shrine of Special Status (receiving some support from the Imperial Household Department)
government-owned slave
director (highest of the four administrative positions of the ritsuryō system); chief
assistant director (second highest of the four administrative positions of the ritsuryō system)
regional administrator; local government official
Qing dynasty system assigning equal numbers of Manchurians and Han Chinese to central government agencies
vestibular system; vestibular organs
tactile organ; touch organ
state-owned land; crown land (UK, Australia, etc.)
government position (or office) not specified in the administrative code of the ritsuryō
government position (or office) not specified in the administrative code of the ritsuryō
government office; government agency
disciplinary dismissal; disciplinary discharge
government agency providing public services; government agency involved in public enterprise
public official stationed in the capital (under the ritsuryō system)
external sense
empty government position; dismissing a government official
empty government position; dismissing a government official
state-owned rice (ritsuryō system)
maritime authority; marine office
Beijing dialect of Standard Chinese as spoken during the Qing dynasty
diplomat; diplomatist
cosmic censorship hypothesis; cosmic censorship conjecture
drillmaster; drill instructor
national shrine of minor grade
national shrine of middle grade
national shrine of major grade
immigration officer
court executive; sheriff; bailiff
investigator; inquisitor; hearing officer; magistrate
accessory organ
sense organ; sensory organ
Commissioner General of the National Police Agency; Director General of the National Police Agency
supreme commander; commander-in-chief; captain general
Examples (200 in total)
By the way, the woman there is also a police officer.
I reflexively look back, but I cannot see anyone who looks like a police officer.
There are about thirty police officers.