Keyword
bureaucrat
Info
FrequencyTop 400-500
Type
Kyōiku (4th grade) 
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KankenLevel 7
Heisig1363
Readings
かん
(68%)
がん
(1%)
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 (5 in total)
public building
pipe
coffin
sedge (a type of plant)
Used in vocabulary (439 in total)
government service; the bureaucracy
police officer; policeman; policewoman
police officer; policeman; constable
commander; commanding officer; CO
Shinto priest
teacher; instructor; professor
organ (of body, plant, etc.)
commandant; commanding officer; general
superior officer
secretary (government); director; chief
civil official
local governor (Edo period); local magistrate; bailiff; deputy official (middle ages); acting administrator
bureaucrat; government official; bureaucracy
court lady; lady-in-waiting
adjutant; aide; aide-de-camp
high official
government official; clerk
military officer; naval officer
police investigator; investigator
the senses; sensuality; carnality
sensual; voluptuous; sexy; arousing
minister's secretary
commander-in-chief; supreme commander
official residence (e.g. of the prime minister)
government service; entering government service; (of a ronin) finding a new lord or master to serve
administrator; director; commissioner
Chief Cabinet Secretary (Japan); Chief of Staff (to the President, Prime Minister, etc.); Cabinet Secretary; Executive Secretary
(squad of) police; police force
non-commissioned officer
government forces; loyalist army
vice-minister; undersecretary
interviewer (for job, school, etc. interviews)
general; admiral
administrative official; secretary; commissioner
public prosecutor
prison officer; corrections officer; penal officer; prison guard; jailor; warder
official post; regular post; principal post (as opposed to secondary post); I (of someone in government or the civil service)
government service; official position; civil service
officials; authorities
Japanese Self-Defense Force official; Self-Defense Force official
office and rank; an official rank
inspector; supervisor
Commander-in-Chief; C-in-C
official in charge
appointment (to an office); investiture; commission
official residence
press officer; press secretary
erotic novel; amorous novel; pornographic novel
case worker; case officer
peace officer; sheriff
petty official; I; me
government office; government agency; authorities
judge; magistrate; (arch.) 3rd grade official (ritsuryo system); (arch.) assistant district officer; (arch.) inspector
technical official; technical officer
parliamentary official
permanent vice-president; undersecretary; vice-minister
academic advisor (e.g. at a university research lab)
(air traffic) controller
councillor; councilor
high (government) official
retirement from office
executive officer; administrative official
examiner; investigator; inquisitor; agent
inspector; examiner; auditor
medical officer
plasterer
inspector; auditor; examiner; comptroller
official uniform; official dress
prime minister's official residence
field officer
military cadet; officer cadet
elite bureaucrat; high government official; high-ranking bureaucrat; senior government official
deputy secretary (government); deputy director
government and people; government and private sector; public and private sector
common hill mynah (Gracula religiosa); hill myna; myna bird
government and municipal offices; public agencies
government secretariat
Secretary of Defence (Defense)
Assistant Vice-Minister; Deputy Director-General; Councillor
all the officials
high-ranking official
officer of the court
legal officer; legal office; judge advocate (army); praetor; pretor
government district
investigator; interrogator
councillor; councilor
the five sense organs
national; governmental
examiner (e.g. patent examiner)
bureaucratic organization; bureaucracy
plainclothes police officer
officer below the rank of major; company officer
Grand Council of State (1868-1885 CE); Department of State (under the ritsuryo system)
medical officer
lower government office (ritsuryo system); servant of a higher ranking person (during the middle ages); retainer; servant of an urban family; serf
government official
official daily gazette; official telegram
government-regulated organization or facility, etc. (organisation)
government soldier; officers and other ranks; officers and enlisted
government service; government employ
Chief Cabinet Secretary
reproductive organ; reproductive system
public relations officer
government management
government office; government agency
(person of) high rank and office (exalted station); persons in high positions
having no special rank or title
bureaucracy
(arch.) office; (arch.) official; chief; head
attorney general; attorney-general
government-issued goods
finance official
government expense
quarantine inspector
semi-governmental; semi-official
sense organ
government permission; official licence; official license; government permit
government school
sympathy for a tragic hero; rooting for the underdog
government-owned; state-owned
official position or title
corrupt policeman; dirty cop
Prime Minister's official residence
all the officials, both military and civil
government-manufactured
two departments (under the ritsuryo system: the Dept. of State and the Dept. of Worship)
official interpreter
Department of Divinities (1868-1871); (arch.) Department of Worship (under the ritsuryo system)
senior military official
internal sense; public official stationed in the capital (under the ritsuryo system)
subordinate official; government clerk
official responsible for court ceremonies
governmental authority
being out of office; lacking a title
government post and court rank
new bureaucrats; right-wing, pro-military bureaucrats who gained prominence in the Home Ministry after the Manchurian Incident (1931)
civil and military officers
competent authorities; supervisory authority
Ministry of Works (Zhou-dynasty China)
provisional administrator in occupied territory during WWII
rank and official position
special prosecutor (e.g. United States); special counsel
inspector; censor
emperor's aide-de-camp
official rank
government (office)
official use; government business
central government agencies; central bureaucracy
national treasury; warehouse owned by the government
public official stationed outside the capital (under the ritsuryo system)
immigration officer; immigration inspector
dismissal; discharge
government or official circles; official quarters
official who arranges festival and rites
Director General of (former) Defence Agency (Defense)
administrative law judge; appeal examiner (e.g. in patents)
deputy minister; assistant minister
official orders
bureaucratic government
unified effort of government and private sector
Ministry of State (Zhou-dynasty China)
instructor at a correctional facility (esp. juvenile detention centre)
government office; public office; government official
official publication; government publication; book belonging to a government office
(prefectural) school inspector
exhibition sponsored by the government
government funds
commercial attache
office-seeking
government-owned ship
a tax official; a revenue officer
government supply; government issue
Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees; UNHCR
mounted police officer
hieratic (ancient Egyptian script)
appraiser; assessor
Chief Cabinet Secretary (1879-1947)
official seal
secretary (government)
six ministries (of Zhou-dynasty China)
administrator of a manor; village headman (Edo period)
government and public offices; public agency
Ministry of Justice (Zhou-dynasty China)
Director-General of the Cabinet Legislation Bureau
dismissing a government official
court officer (from the Imperial Household Department)
governmentally or nationally established or run
government land; public land
military police; MP
secretariat councillor; assistant vice-minister; deputy director-general
governmental porcelain furnace
chronicler
putting the officials and bureaucrats above the people; treating the governors as more important than the governed; statism
bureaucratization; bureaucratisation
official in charge
accountant; treasurer
Director of National Intelligence (USA); DNI
holding office
official residence (for public servants)
civilian and military man
might is right; history is written by the victors; winners are always right and losers are always in the wrong
government property; taxes and other fees paid by the provinces to the government (ritsuryo system)
four administrative positions (of the ritsuryo system: kami, suke, jou, sakan)
government-run enterprise
official Confucian teacher
Ministry of War (Zhou-dynasty China)
administrative office; government agency
vestigial (rudimentary) organ
blind official who specialized as a musician, masseur or acupuncturist (abolished in 1871)
Oversight Department (division of the daijokan responsible for controlling central and provincial governmental offices)
government-appointed
Director General of Environment Agency
government agencies concerned with ...
constellation (in ancient China; important constellations were then used to divide the ecliptic into 28 "mansions")
official government rank and salary; government stipend
official demand
collusive bidding at the initiative of government agencies
industry, government and academia
supernumerary official
studying abroad at government expense
Tokugawa Yoshinobu's resignation as Minister of the Interior and the abandonment of the Shogunate's territories (during the Meiji Restoration)
initiative taken by bureaucrats in the drafting of government policies and bills (rather than by politicians)
to enter the government service
investigator; interrogator
Director General of Economic Planning Agency
student studying abroad at government expense
Supreme Commander for the Allied Powers (in Japan); SCAP
functional group
probationary diplomat
articulatory organ (i.e. the tongue, teeth, lips, etc.)
official (government) postcard; postal card
government office
rules which officials must follow
corrupt government official
industry-academic-government (cooperation, etc.)
Director General of Science and Technology Agency
Conference of Administrative Vice-Ministers
Cabinet Secretariat classified fund; secret Cabinet expenses
General Headquarters (office of the Supreme Commander of the Allied Powers); GHQ
Ministry of Rites (Zhou-dynasty China)
state-sponsored temples, particularly those favored and protected by the shogunate during the Kamakura period
petty official responsible for collecting public gossip and presenting it to the king (in ancient China)
Assistant Secretary of State
low-caste servants of public ministries (in the ritsuryō system)
debureaucratization; curtailing the power of the bureaucracy
Ministry of Civil Administration and Social Welfare (Zhou-dynasty China)
government business
body without organs (philosophical concept); BwO
politicians, business leaders and bureaucrats; the worlds of politics, big business and bureaucracy
parliamentary councillor; parliamentary councilor
official publication; public documents
sound-producing organ (i.e. speech organs of mammals, wings of insects)
Oversight Department of the Left (overseeing the Ministries of Central Affairs, Ceremonies, Civil Administration and Popular Affairs) (ritsuryo system)
direct administration by the government
government publication; Chinese textbook (published by the Edo shogunate)
public relations officer; spokesman; spokesperson
retirement at one's own request
removal from office
investigator; interrogator
official holding a lifetime appointment
General Headquarters (office of the Supreme Commander of the Allied Powers); GHQ
government publication; Chinese textbook (published by the Edo shogunate)
disparity (of income, pensions, etc.) between public and private employees
one's former post
military officer attached to embassy
organ transplantation
regional administrator; local government official
laxity in official discipline; civil service corruption
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)
Oversight Department (division of the daijokan responsible for controlling central and provincial governmental offices)
Secretary of Defence (Defense)
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
Director General of National Land Agency
parliamentary under-secretary
doyen of the diplomatic corps
Director General of Prime Minister's Office
proper authorities; authorities concerned
semiofficial paper
reserve officers' cadet school
official appointed by the Emperor
official whose appointment and dismissal requires Imperial acknowledgement (acknowledgment)
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 ritsuryo system); chief
assistant director (second highest of the four administrative positions of the ritsuryo 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
bureaucrats entertaining bureaucrats using public funds
bureaucrats entertaining bureaucrats using public funds
tactile organ; touch organ
state-owned land; crown land (UK, Australia, etc.)
government position (or office) not specified in the administrative code of the ritsuryo
government position (or office) not specified in the administrative code of the ritsuryo
government office; government agency
disciplinary dismissal; disciplinary discharge
administrative government agency; policy-making government agency
government agency providing public services; government agency involved in public enterprise
public official stationed in the capital (under the ritsuryo system)
external sense
empty government position; dismissing a government official
empty government position; dismissing a government official
state-owned rice (ritsuryo system)
maritime authority; marine office
Beijing dialect of Standard Chinese (as spoken during the Qing dynasty)
diplomat; diplomatist
government-controlled media
cosmic censorship hypothesis; cosmic censorship conjecture
drillmaster; drill instructor
Examples (187 in total)
Are they cops?
Then, at last, the policeman lowered his arm.
There were ten police officers on the spot.