Kanji N2

庁: government office

庁 is a JLPT N2 kanji meaning government office, written with 5 strokes. It is read チョウ, テイ (on) and やくしょ (kun). Children in Japan learn it in grade 6. You will see it in 官庁 (かんちょう, government office) and 県庁 (けんちょう, prefectural office).

庁

Meanings

  • government office
Strokes5
JLPT levelN2
School gradeGrade 6
Frequency#793 of 2,500

On reading · Kun reading

On reading
  • チョウ
  • テイ

On'yomi: from Chinese, written in katakana. Used in compound words.

Kun reading
  • やくしょ

Kun'yomi: native Japanese, in hiragana. The faint part is the okurigana, written in kana after the kanji.

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Common words with 庁

The most useful words written with it, easiest first. Every other kanji in them opens its own page.

  • 官庁かんちょう

    government office; government agency

    JLPT N2
  • 県庁けんちょう

    prefectural office

    JLPT N2
  • 庁ちょう

    government office; agency; board

    JLPT N1
  • 省庁しょうちょう

    ministries and government offices

  • 警察庁けいさつちょう

    National Police Agency; NPA

  • 都庁とちょう

    Tokyo Metropolitan Government (Office)

  • 庁舎ちょうしゃ

    government office building

  • 気象庁きしょうちょう

    (Japanese) Meteorological Agency; JMA

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Stroke order from KanjiVG © Ulrich Apel, CC BY-SA 3.0. Readings, meanings and words from KANJIDIC2 and JMdict, names from JMnedict, © EDRDG, CC BY-SA 4.0, and Wikidata, CC0. JLPT lists after Jonathan Waller (tanos.co.uk), CC BY.