かん
Meanings
Noun
1. government; government service; the bureaucracy
2. government post; government official
Pitch accent
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Used in vocabulary (224 in total)
two departments (under the ritsuryō system: the Dept. of State and the Dept. of Worship)
government office; government agency; authorities
local governor (Edo period); local magistrate; bailiff; deputy official (Middle Ages); acting administrator
official residence (e.g. of the prime minister)
government service; government employ
police officer; policeman; policewoman
commander; commanding officer; CO
military officer; naval officer
inspector; supervisor
councillor; councilor
powerful official; powerful office; influential position; holding of concurrent (official) posts; concurrent post; one's second post
court lady; lady-in-waiting
adjutant; aide; aide-de-camp
(air traffic) controller
supreme commander
government secretariat
government and public offices; public agency
official Confucian teacher
(Shinto) priest
teacher; instructor; professor
civil official
officer
commandant; commanding officer; general
secretary (government); director; chief
superior officer
medical officer
(police) investigator
private secretary
high official
the senses; sensuality; carnality
commander-in-chief; supreme commander
administrator; director; commissioner
consul (of the Roman republic)
prison officer; corrections officer; penal officer; prison guard; jailor; warder
non-commissioned officer; petty officer
official in charge
administrative official; secretary; commissioner
government service; entering government service; finding a new lord or master to serve (of a ronin)
secretary
official post; regular post; principal post (as opposed to secondary post); I (of someone in government or the civil service)
government forces; loyalist army
Japanese Self-Defense Force official; Self-Defense Force official
petty official; I; me
general; admiral
vice-minister; undersecretary
interviewer (for job, school, etc. interviews)
court lady
public prosecutor
technical official; technical officer
peace officer; sheriff
government service; official position; civil service
office and rank; an official rank
official residence
Chief Cabinet Secretary (Japan); Chief of Staff (to the President, Prime Minister, etc.); Cabinet Secretary; Executive Secretary
case worker; case officer
appointment (to an office); investiture; commission
parliamentary official
inspector; examiner; auditor
inspector; auditor; examiner; comptroller
examiner; investigator; inquisitor; agent
executive officer; administrative official
legal officer; legal office; judge advocate (army); praetor (Roman magistrate); pretor
plasterer
deputy secretary (government); deputy director
councillor; councilor
examiner (e.g. patent examiner)
analyst; assayer
Assistant Vice-Minister; Deputy Director-General; Councillor
press officer; press secretary
officer of the court
government and municipal offices; public agencies
high-ranking official
railway police
medical officer
government and people; government and private sector; public and private sector
investigator; interrogator
the five sense organs
government official
(army) military academy; Imperial Japanese Army Academy
government service; government employ
government-regulated organization or facility, etc. (organisation)
sense organ; sensory organ
reproductive organ; reproductive system
public relations officer
bureaucratic world; government circles
official interpreter
Department of Divinities (1868-1871); Department of Worship (under the ritsuryō system)
respiratory organs
government-owned; state-owned
Lord Chancellor
imperial appointee
government school
semi-governmental; semi-official
internal sense; public official stationed in the capital (under the ritsuryō system)
senior official
official responsible for court ceremonies
finance official
official position or title
government-manufactured
rank and official position
Ministry of State (Zhou dynasty China)
governmental authority
being out of office; lacking a title
inspector; censor
government post and court rank
immigration officer; immigration inspector
official rank
civil and military officers
drug enforcement officer
dismissal; discharge
official use; government business
quarantine inspector
(prefectural) school inspector
government funds
exhibition sponsored by the government
air traffic controller
research officer
commercial attache
a tax official; a revenue officer
official orders
office-seeking
administrative law judge; appeal examiner (e.g. in patents)
government-owned ship
government-established university; national university
undercover investigator
government supply; government issue
appraiser; assessor
electric organ
official seal
administrator of a manor; village headman (Edo period)
dismissing a government official
(United States) Air Force Academy
revenue officer
government land; public land
chronicler
military police; MP
court officer (from the Imperial Household Department)
politicians, business leaders and bureaucrats; the worlds of politics, big business and bureaucracy
judicial police officer
accountant; treasurer
officialdom
holding office
civilian and military man
official residence (for public servants)
government property
government-run enterprise
chamberlain
to enter the government service
four administrative positions (of the ritsuryō system: kami, suke, jou, sakan)
Ministry of War (Zhou dynasty China)
government-appointed
Oversight Department (under the Department of State of the ritsuryō system)
official government rank and salary; government stipend
blind official who specialized as a musician, masseur or acupuncturist (abolished in 1871)
marker; grader; scorer
chief secretary
supernumerary official
semiofficial
rules which officials must follow
government office
state-sponsored temples, particularly those favored and protected by the shogunate during the Kamakura period
politicians, business leaders and bureaucrats; the worlds of politics, big business and bureaucracy
rapporteur; reporter
government business
parliamentary councillor; parliamentary councilor
one's former post
official holding a lifetime appointment
direct administration by the government
industry-academic-government (cooperation, etc.)
sound-producing organ (i.e. speech organs of mammals, wings of insects)
Ministry of Civil Administration and Social Welfare (Zhou dynasty China)
regional administrator; local government official
constellation (in ancient China; important constellations were then used to divide the ecliptic into 28 "mansions")
low-caste servants of public ministries (in the ritsuryō system)
Director-General of the Cabinet Legislation Bureau
Director-General of the Cabinet Legislation Bureau
official translator; secretary-translator
career as a government official; career as a public servant
mamma (milk-secreting organ of female mammals)
inspector (of taxes, etc.)
Qing Mandarin (standard variety of Chinese spoken by official classes during the Qing dynasty); Mandarin (branch of Chinese spoken in northern and southwestern China)
former government official
holding of concurrent (official) posts; concurrent post
parliamentary under-secretary
doyen of the diplomatic corps
official appointed by the Emperor
official whose appointment and dismissal requires Imperial acknowledgement (acknowledgment)
cooperation between the private and public sectors
government compilation
prison official
labor attache
bureaucrats entertaining bureaucrats using public funds
disciplinary dismissal; disciplinary discharge
public official stationed in the capital (under the ritsuryō system)
public official stationed in the capital (under the ritsuryō system)
external sense
diplomat; diplomatist
immigration officer
court executive; sheriff; bailiff
Imperial Palace guard
investigator; inquisitor; hearing officer; magistrate
digestive organ
sense organ; sensory organ
government official (esp. one of low to medium rank); public servant
government official (esp. one of low to medium rank); public servant
government-owned slave
regional administrator; local government official