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Kanji Detail for 局 - "bureau, board, situation"

局

  • Meaning

    局 means "bureau, board, situation."

    1. Bureau - An office; a department.

    2. Situation - A state of affairs; circumstances.

    3. Board - A game board (as in go or shogi).

    4. Chamber - A room or quarters.

  • Words using 局

    • 当局 とうきょく Listen authorities; relevant authorities; authorities concerned
    • 事務局 じむきょく Listen secretariat; executive office
    • 局長 きょくちょう Listen bureau director; office chief
    • 支局 しきょく Listen branch office
    • 結局 けっきょく Listen after all; in the end; ultimately
    • 政局 せいきょく Listen political situation
    • 局面 きょくめん Listen position in a game; state of the game; situation
    • 郵便局 ゆうびんきょく Listen post office

  • Four-character idioms with 局

    • 局外中立 きょくがいちゅうりつ Listen neutrality
    • 局面打開 きょくめんだかい Listen breakthrough in the situation; break in the deadlocked situation
    • 着眼大局 ちゃくがんたいきょく Listen having an eye to the big picture; being aware of the general situation

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    • Verified meaning: bureau, board, situation
    • Official Jōyō kanji — a standard character every Japanese reader recognises
    • Used in real Japanese given names (read つぼね)

    A single kanji rarely maps one-to-one onto an English word. Read the meanings and associations above as a set — a character that fits the dictionary definition can still carry a connotation you did not intend.

  • Name readings of 局

    Given names 局(つぼね)Listen

  • 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.

  • Onyomi

    tip

    kyoku(キョク) キョク

  • Kunyomi

    tip

    tsubone(つぼね) つぼね

  • Strokes

    tip

    7 strokes

  • Radical

    tip

    尸 (shikabane・kabane・shikabanekammuri)

  • Related Keywords

    bureau situation board chamber contracted small narrow department office administration agency authority branch center circumstances commission division game ministry organization quarters room section service shogi station unit

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.

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