漢字Kanji · in Structures & Home
庁: government office
JLPT N25 strokesGrade 6Your ink: 白 Not met
广 carries the meaning · 丁 gives the sound
5 strokes
Oracle bone · Shang Bronze · Shang Today
Oracle bone and bronze: Wikimedia Commons, traced from Academia Sinica, CC0. Today’s form: KanjiVG, CC BY-SA 3.0.
One reading, and the words that use it
チョウchou · on'yomi · in compounds
- 庁舎ちょうしゃgovernment office building
- 官庁かんちょうgovernment office
- 都庁とちょうTokyo Metropolitan area office
- 県庁けんちょうprefectural office
- 警視庁けいしちょうpolice headquarters
- 環境庁かんきょうちょうthe Department of Environment
- 気象庁きしょうちょうthe Department of Meteorology
Also read テイ, やくしょ, with no example words in our sources. Words: Kanji alive, CC BY 4.0.
成り立ち
Where it comes from
Memory story · made up to help you remember
“Build on the hillside! This radical represents practical buildings that provide shelter while leaning directly into the landscape.”
繋がり
Connections
Ink shades, lightest to darkest: 白 Not met, 淡 Met, 中 Learning, 濃 Familiar, 印 Mastered
丁
Also built on street (丁)
庁 takes the 丁 family's reading, チョウ (chou).
Easy to confuse
The difference, side by side庁 government office · 丁
vs広 wide · 厶In ChineseSimplified 厅 · traditional 廳 · tīng
Three different forms: Japanese 庁, simplified 厅, traditional 廳.
- Simplified
- 厅 mainland China, Singapore
- Traditional
- 廳 Taiwan, Hong Kong
Pinyin tīng 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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