かん
Meanings
Noun
1. government service; the bureaucracy
Pitch accent
Used in vocabulary (205 in total)
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)
two departments (under the ritsuryo system: the Dept. of State and the Dept. of Worship)
government secretariat
powerful official; powerful office; influential position; holding of concurrent (official) posts; concurrent post; one's second post
Department of Divinities (1868-1871); (arch.) Department of Worship (under the ritsuryo system)
official Confucian teacher
military officer; naval officer
inspector; supervisor
court lady; lady-in-waiting
police officer; policeman; policewoman
government service; government employ
commander; commanding officer; CO
imperial appointee
adjutant; aide; aide-de-camp
non-commissioned officer
public prosecutor
technical official; technical officer
councillor; councilor
supreme commander
(air traffic) controller
medical officer
dismissal; discharge
quarantine inspector
government and public offices; public agency
Shinto priest
teacher; instructor; professor
civil official
officer
commandant; commanding officer; general
secretary (government); director; chief
superior officer
organ (of body, plant, etc.)
police investigator; investigator
medical officer
high official
minister's secretary
the senses; sensuality; carnality
administrator; director; commissioner
official in charge
government forces; loyalist army
official post; regular post; principal post (as opposed to secondary post); I (of someone in government or the civil service)
government service; entering government service; (of a ronin) finding a new lord or master to serve
administrative official; secretary; commissioner
secretary
petty official; I; me
general; admiral
vice-minister; undersecretary
Japanese Self-Defense Force official; Self-Defense Force official
interviewer (for job, school, etc. interviews)
court lady
office and rank; an official rank
peace officer; sheriff
government service; official position; civil service
official residence
Chief Cabinet Secretary (Japan); Chief of Staff (to the President, Prime Minister, etc.); Cabinet Secretary; Executive Secretary
appointment (to an office); investiture; commission
case worker; case officer
parliamentary official
inspector; auditor; examiner; comptroller
inspector; examiner; auditor
executive officer; administrative official
examiner; investigator; inquisitor; agent
deputy secretary (government); deputy director
plasterer
legal officer; legal office; judge advocate (army); praetor; pretor
analyst; assayer
Assistant Vice-Minister; Deputy Director-General; Councillor
examiner (e.g. patent examiner)
press officer; press secretary
officer of the court
government and municipal offices; public agencies
railway police
high-ranking official
investigator; interrogator
government and people; government and private sector; public and private sector
councillor; councilor
government official
the five sense organs
(US) Military Academy
government-regulated organization or facility, etc. (organisation)
government service; government employ
sense organ
public relations officer
reproductive organ; reproductive system
bureaucracy
official interpreter
government-owned; state-owned
Lord Chancellor
government school
respiratory organs
senior official
internal sense; public official stationed in the capital (under the ritsuryo system)
official position or title
rank and official position
finance official
semi-governmental; semi-official
official responsible for court ceremonies
government-manufactured
Ministry of State (Zhou-dynasty China)
governmental authority
inspector; censor
government post and court rank
being out of office; lacking a title
official rank
immigration officer; immigration inspector
civil and military officers
official use; government business
(prefectural) school inspector
government funds
exhibition sponsored by the government
administrative law judge; appeal examiner (e.g. in patents)
commercial attache
official orders
office-seeking
air traffic controller
a tax official; a revenue officer
appraiser; assessor
electric organ
official seal
government supply; government issue
administrator of a manor; village headman (Edo period)
dismissing a government official
revenue officer
court officer (from the Imperial Household Department)
government land; public land
chronicler
military police; MP
accountant; treasurer
officialdom
holding office
civilian and military man
official residence (for public servants)
government property
government-run enterprise
chamberlain
four administrative positions (of the ritsuryo system: kami, suke, jou, sakan)
Ministry of War (Zhou-dynasty China)
research officer
government-appointed
Oversight Department (division of the daijokan responsible for controlling central and provincial governmental offices)
constellation (in ancient China; important constellations were then used to divide the ecliptic into 28 "mansions")
official government rank and salary; government stipend
blind official who specialized as a musician, masseur or acupuncturist (abolished in 1871)
chief secretary
supernumerary official
to enter the government service
semiofficial
rules which officials must follow
government office
state-sponsored temples, particularly those favored and protected by the shogunate during the Kamakura period
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
politicians, business leaders and bureaucrats; the worlds of politics, big business and bureaucracy
low-caste servants of public ministries (in the ritsuryō system)
Director-General of the Cabinet Legislation Bureau
Director-General of the Cabinet Legislation Bureau
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 ritsuryo system)
public official stationed in the capital (under the ritsuryo system)
external sense
diplomat; diplomatist
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