Kanji Kaisen

漢字Kanji · in Human Body & People

局: bureau, board

Also: office, affair, conclusion, court lady, lady-in-waiting, her apartment

JLPT N37 strokesGrade 3Your ink: 白 Not met

尸 carries the meaning · 句 is drawn in

7 strokes
  • Small seal · Qin
  • Today

Small seal: Wikimedia Commons, public domain. Today’s form: KanjiVG, CC BY-SA 3.0.

One reading, and the words that use it

キョクkyoku · on'yomi · in compounds

  • 局長きょくちょうbureau director, office chief
  • 局面きょくめんcheckerboard, aspect, situation
  • 破局はきょくcatastrophe, cataclysm
  • 戦局せんきょくthe state of the war
  • 政局せいきょくpolitical situation
  • 結局けっきょくafter all, eventually
  • 薬局やっきょくpharmacy, drugstore
  • 水道局すいどうきょくwater bureau or department
  • 郵便局ゆうびんきょくpost office
  • 放送局ほうそうきょくbroadcasting office
  • 局地的なきょくちてきなlocal
  • 局限するきょくげんするlimit, localize

Also read つぼね, with no example words in our sources. Words: Kanji alive, CC BY 4.0.

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Where it comes from

Origin · sourced

Phono-semantic compound (形聲)尸 (meaning) + 句 (sound)

Source: Wiktionary, 局 (rev. 91933101), CC BY-SA 4.0

Memory story · made up to help you remember

“Awning (尸) + a mouth/boundary. A "governed" space with a roof where official business is conducted—a bureau or an office department.”
From the 尸 corpse story
繋がり
Ink shades, lightest to darkest: 白 Not met, 淡 Met, 中 Learning, 濃 Familiar, 印 Mastered
尸

Also built on corpse (尸)

All 18
句

Also built on phrase (句)

Also read キョク

3 kanji share this on'yomi

Easy to confuse

The difference, side by side
局 bureau · 尸 + 句
vs君 mister · 尹 + 口
局 has 尸 + 句 where 君 has 尹 + 口.
In ChineseSame character in simplified and traditional · jú

Same form: 局 is written the same way in mainland China (simplified) and in Taiwan and Hong Kong (traditional).

Simplified
局 mainland China, Singapore
Traditional
局 Taiwan, Hong Kong

Pinyin jú 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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