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庁

庁 — readings, stroke count and radical

Stroke order

Stroke order data from KanjiVG (CC BY-SA 3.0).

Meaning (Japanese)

  1. たいら。
  2. 「𥑈」の同字。
  3. 「廳」の同字、新字体。

Character meanings and origins come from the Japanese Wiktionary.

Origin of the character

形声。「广」+音符「丁」。「廳」の音符を変更した略字。「廳」については廳#字源の項目を参照。

Character meanings and origins come from the Japanese Wiktionary.

Meaning

government office

English glosses from KANJIDIC2.

Readings

On (Sino-Japanese)
  • チョウElem.
  • テイ
Kun (native)
  • やくしょ
Other languages
  • 拼音ting1
  • 한글cheong
  • Hán-ViệtSảnh
  • Hán-ViệtThinh

Labels show the school stage at which each Jōyō reading is taught.

Basics

Strokes
5 strokes
Radical
廴(えんにょう)
JIS level
Level 1
JLPT (old scale)
Level 2
Unicode
U+5E81

Components

Components this kanji is made of. Follow them to find similar kanji.

Composition (IDS): enclosure ⿸广丁

Words using this kanji

  • 庁ちょう（接尾辞的）国の行政機関の一つ。府または省の外局または特別の機関として置かれる。government office, agency, board
  • 庁舎ちょうしゃ役所の事務を行うための建物。government office building
  • 庁内ちょうない庁の組織の中。省庁の中。within a governmental agency, within a government building

Words starting with this kanji, most common first.

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Similar-looking kanji

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Variants

Lookup codes

SKIP
3-3-2
Four Corner
0022.1
Spahn–Hadamitzky
3q2.2
Heisig
635
Nelson
1498