庁 – government office

5 strokesTaught in grade 6#793 in newspaper frequencyN2 vocabulary

The kanji 庁 means government office. Its on’yomi (Chinese-derived reading) is チョウ、テイ (chou, tei); its kun’yomi (native Japanese reading) is やくしょ (yakusho). It is written with 5 strokes, under radical 广 (no. 53).

Stroke order

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Readings

Type	Reading	Romaji
On’yomi	チョウ	chou
On’yomi	テイ	tei
Kun’yomi	やくしょ	yakusho

A dot separates the kanji’s part from the okurigana (kana written after it), e.g. まな.ぶ → 学ぶ.

Radical and components

Radical: 广 (Kangxi radical 53). Components: 一・亅・广.

Words using 庁

庁ちょうgovernment office官庁かんちょうgovernment office県庁けんちょうprefectural office

Example sentences

どの官庁もお役所主義にはまり込まないで、仕事のスピードアップをはかるという点において問題があるようだ。

Every government office seems to have problems in expediting matters without entanglement in its red tape system.

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Kanji with the same radical

度府広店座廃康庭庫底序床庶廊庇

Sources: KANJIDIC2 (EDRDG, CC BY-SA 4.0), KanjiVG (CC BY-SA 3.0), Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0 FR). About the data.