Onyomi: キョク · Kunyomi: つぼね · Meanings: affair, board, bureau, conclusion, court lady, her apartment, lady-in-waiting, office
Kanji for affair, board, bureau, conclusion, court lady
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局 is made from 尸, meaning “body” or “person lying down,” on the left, and 口, meaning “mouth” or “opening,” on the right. Originally, it represented a structure or place where people gathered or were arranged in an organized way. From this idea of an organized space or office, 局 came to mean a bureau, office, department, or a specific situation.
局 shows an organized space for people or tasks, meaning office, bureau, or situation.
Picture people arranged inside a room (尸) with a central opening or doorway (口) to manage tasks. That organized setup is 局.
| Word | Reading | Meaning | Meta |
|---|---|---|---|
| 局 | きょく | bureau, department | common JLPT-N3 Noun, Noun, used as a suffix |
| 局 | つぼね | court lady (Heian period), lady-in-waiting | Noun |
| 局長 | きょくちょう | bureau director, office chief | common Noun |
| 局面 | きょくめん | position in a game, state of the game | common Noun |
| 局員 | きょくいん | clerk, (bureau, post-office) staff | common Noun |
| 局部 | きょくぶ | part, section | Noun |
| 局番 | きょくばん | telephone exchange number | Noun |
| 局所麻酔 | きょくしょますい | local anesthesia, local anaesthesia | Noun |
| 局地的 | きょくちてき | local (rain, distribution, outbreak, etc.), localized, regional, isolated | Na-adjective (keiyodoshi) |
| 局部麻酔 | きょくぶますい | local anesthesia, local anaesthesia, local anaesthetic, local anesthetic | Noun |