漢字Kanji · in Structures & Home
官: bureaucrat, the government
Also: organ
JLPT N38 strokesGrade 4Your ink: 白 Not met
宀 carries the meaning · 口 is drawn in
8 strokes
One reading, and the words that use it
カンkan · on'yomi · in compounds
- 官房かんぼうgovernment secretariat
- 官邸かんていofficial residence
- 官僚かんりょうbureaucrat, government official
- 官僚主義かんりょうしゅぎbureaucracy
- 長官ちょうかんchief, secretary
- 警官けいかんpoliceman
- 器官きかんorgan
- 裁判官さいばんかんjudge [n.]
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成り立ち
Where it comes from
Origin · sourced
Ideogrammic compound (會意)宀 + 𠂤
Compositionally related to 宮, but approximately analysable as ideogrammic compound (會意): 宀 + 𠂤 – multiple rooms under a roof, an official building.
Source: Wiktionary, 官 (rev. 92638654), CC BY-SA 4.0
Memory story · made up to help you remember
“Under one roof! Imagine the safety and warmth of a sturdy house at the end of a long day.”
繋がり
Connections
Ink shades, lightest to darkest: 白 Not met, 淡 Met, 中 Learning, 濃 Familiar, 印 Mastered
官 gives its sound to
The family reading is カン (kan). Sound parts: KanjiVG.
Easy to confuse
The difference, side by side官 bureaucrat
vs害 harm · 龶In ChineseSame character in simplified and traditional · guān
Same form: 官 is written the same way in mainland China (simplified) and in Taiwan and Hong Kong (traditional).
- Simplified
- 官 mainland China, Singapore
- Traditional
- 官 Taiwan, Hong Kong
Pinyin guān most common reading
Forms and pinyin: Unicode Unihan database (Unicode License v3). Pinyin lists the most common reading, not every reading.
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