ギカイ
Meanings
Noun
1. congress; parliament; diet; legislative assembly
Pitch accent
ギ
カイ
Composed of
discussion; deliberation; thought; opinion
meeting; assembly; party; society; association; club
Used in vocabulary (35 in total)
council (consultatory, advisory); board of trustees
Imperial Diet; legislative assembly of Japan (1889-1947); Imperial Diet; legislative assembly of the Holy Roman Empire
city council
Tokyo Metropolitan Assembly
federal parliament; federal congress
national assembly (esp. France)
parliamentarism; parliamentary government
village assembly
European Parliament
state legislature; state or provincial parliament
parliamentary democracy
local assembly
town council
prefectural assembly
prefectural assembly (in Kyoto or Osaka)
parliamentarism
Library of Congress; parliamentary library
parliamentary election
joint committee of both houses
ward council
Hokkaido Legislative Assembly
British parliament
Tokyo Metropolitan Assembly
US Congress
European Parliament
upper house; senate
lower house (parliament, congress, diet)
British parliament
lower and upper houses being controlled by different parties; (lit.) twisted parliament
prefectural assemblies
hung parliament
General Council of Trade Unions of Japan (1950-1989); Sōhyō
Japan Confederation of A- and H-Bomb Sufferers Organizations; Nihon Hidankyo
Examples (3 in total)
They introduced a bill in Congress.
Do you know when the first parliament came into being?
The queen is going to address parliament next week.