Kanji
N1 14 strokes Grade 8 freq #709

colleague, official, companion

On'yomi (音読み)

Radical (部首)

person hito

Others with this radical

On'yomi compounds (音読み)

cabinet ministers
bureaucrat; government official
coworker; co-worker
staff; staff officer
Joint Staff Council
colleague; workmate
consort ship
bureaucratic organization; bureaucracy
Ground Staff Office
debureaucratization; curtailing the power of the bureaucracy

Example sentences

He failed to become a cabinet member at that time.

The premier and his cabinet colleagues resigned.

In fact, this is a major means of bureaucratic control.

The bureaucrats maintain solid ties with the gigantic corporations.