局

Translingual

Stroke order

Han character

局 (radical 44 尸+4, 7 strokes, cangjie input 尸尸口 (SSR), four-corner 7722₇)

1. bureau, office
2. circumstance

References

• KangXi: page 300, character 22
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 7653
• Dae Jaweon: page 596, character 15
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 2, page 967, character 8
• Unihan data for U+5C40

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Cantonese

Hanzi

局 (Yale guk6)

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Japanese

Kanji

局 (grade 3 “Kyōiku” kanji)

Readings

• On: きょく (kyoku)
• Kun: つぼね (tsubone), しきる (shikiru)

Compounds

• 郵便局 (ゆうびんきょく, yūbinkyoku, “post office”)
• 薬局 (やっきょく, yakkyoku, “pharmacy”)

Etymology 1

Noun

局 (hiragana つぼね, romaji tsubone)

1. a court lady
2. a room in a palace, especially for a lady

Etymology 2

Noun

局 (hiragana きょく, romaji kyoku)

1. bureau, department
2. channel such as on TV

Suffix

局 (hiragana きょく, romaji -kyoku)

1. bureau

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Korean

Hanja

局 (hangeul 국, revised guk, McCune-Reischauer kuk)

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Mandarin

Pronunciation

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Hanzi

局 (pinyin jī (ji1), jú (ju2), Wade-Giles chi¹, chü²)

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Middle Chinese

局 (ghiok)

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Vietnamese

Han character

局 (cục, cộc, cuộc, gục, ngúc)