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Kanji Detail for 局 - "bureau, situation, board"
局
- Meaning
局 means "bureau, situation, board."
Bureau - An office; a department.
Situation - A state of affairs; circumstances.
Board - A game board (as in go or shogi).
Chamber - A room or quarters.
- Dictionary Citations
The meaning above is based on the following sources:
KANJIDIC2 A comprehensive Japanese-English kanji dictionary
bureau; board; office; affair; conclusion; court lady; lady-in-waiting; her apartment
Unihan Unicode Han Database for CJK characters
bureau, office; circumstance
CC-CEDICT A Chinese-English dictionary
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Make Me a Hanzi Open-source Chinese character data
bureau, office; circumstance, game, situation
XSZD Xuéshēng Zìdiǎn (學生字典) - Student's Dictionary
A division; a department. All that is divided into parts is called 局. Now governments establish specialized 局 for handling affairs, like ancients dividing tasks. Hence those in charge are called 當局. Such as 局內, 局外, meaning involved or not involved. Gambling affairs are also divided, hence called 博局. Such as one game of chess is 一局. A chessboard is 棋局. World affairs change like chess, hence national affairs are called 大局, 時局. | One's capacity and tolerance is also called 局. Such as 器局, 局量, meaning the extent of one's capacity. In terms of structure, it's called 格局, like saying scale. | Constrained. Such as 局促. Also written as 跼, 侷.
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Sentences including 局
Is there a post office near here?
I remembered that boys will be boys.
The rumor turned out to be true.
She went back to england in the end.
If you try for too much , you'll end up with nothing at all.
Is there a post office around here?
She will fail eventually.
Teach the way from the here to post office.
You'll take this to the post office , won't you?
Nothing happened after all.
Sentences from Japanese classical masterpieces
円い輪になっているものを一粒ずつ数えてゆけば、どこまで数えていっても終局はありません。
from "Kokoro", by Natsume Sōseki, original text:Shueisha Bunko, Shueisha
選ばないとすれば――下人の考えは、何度も同じ道を低徊した揚句に、やっとこの局所へ逢着した。
from "Rashomon", by Ryūnosuke Akutagawa, original text:Chikuma Bunko, Chikuma Shobo
しかしこの「すれば」は、いつまでたっても、結局「すれば」であった。
from "Rashomon", by Ryūnosuke Akutagawa, original text:Chikuma Bunko, Chikuma Shobo
円い輪になっているものを一粒ずつ数えてゆけば、どこまで数えていっても終局はありません。
from "Kokoro", by Natsume Sōseki, original text:Shueisha Bunko, Shueisha