官 – bureaucrat, the government, organ

8 strokesTaught in grade 4#230 in newspaper frequencyN5 vocabulary

The kanji 官 means bureaucrat, the government, organ. Its on’yomi (Chinese-derived reading) is カン (kan). It is written with 8 strokes, under radical 宀 (no. 40).

Stroke order

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Readings

Type	Reading	Romaji
On’yomi	カン	kan

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: 宀 (Kangxi radical 40). Components: 口・宀・｜.

Words using 官

警官けいかんpolice officer官僚かんりょうbureaucrat器官きかんorgan官庁かんちょうgovernment office長官ちょうかんsecretary (government)

Example sentences

２０人の警官が現場に現れた。

Twenty police have arrived on the scene.

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彼の辞職で官僚の席に空きができた。

His resignation left a vacancy in the cabinet.

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私たちは内臓器官を調べるためにカエルを解剖した。

We dissected a frog to examine its internal organs.

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Kanji with the same radical

定実家安容宅害宮審守察室客完富寄

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