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common

キョク/KYOKU/    つぼね/tsubone/KYOKU/キョク/    tsubone/つぼね/

bureau;  board;  office;  affair;  conclusion;  court lady;  lady-in-waiting;  her apartment

Radical: 尸 (corpse).   Strokes: 7画.   Elements: 口尸.   Pinyin: jú.   Hangul: 국 [gug].

Jōyō Kanji 3rd Grade.   JLPT N3.

Example compounds:
キョクKYOKU検事局【けんじきょくkenjikyoku】prosecutor's office
中継局【ちゅうけいきょくchūkeikyoku】relay station; translator station
事務総局【じむそうきょくjimusōkyoku】secretariat-general
つぼねtsubone局【つぼねtsubone】court lady; separate room in a palace (esp. for a lady) (Heian period); room for a very low class prostitute; very low class prostitute
御局【おつぼねotsubone】dignified lady-in-waiting who had her own private chamber or office at court or in the shogun's castle
局女郎【つぼねじょろうtsubonejorō】prostitute of the lowest class (Edo period)
Codepoints and classification codes:
5c40–Unicode
22-41–JIS X 0208
3-3-4–SKIP
3r4.4–TKD
7722.7–Four Corner
3749–De Roo
Dictionary indices:
1384–Classic Nelson
1412–The New Nelson Character Dictionary by A. Nelson
3063–New Japanese-English Character Dictionary by J. Halpern
1943–Kanji Learner's Dictionary by J. Halpern
1066–Remembering the Kanji by J. Heisig
194–A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage (Gakken)
514–Japanese Names by P.G. O'Neill
422–Essential Kanji by P.G. O'Neill
7653–Daikanwajiten 「大漢和辞典」 by T. Morohashi vol. 4 p. 135
262–A Guide to Remembering Japanese Characters by K.G. Henshall
170–Kanji & Kana by Spahn and Hadamitzky
194–Guide to Reading & Writing Japanese (H) by F. Sakade
482–Kanji Flashcards by M. Hodges and T. Okazaki
280–Guide to Reading & Writing Japanese: Third Edition 3rd edition by Henshall
279–Tuttle Kanji Cards by A. Kask
228–The Kanji Way to Japanese Language Power by D. Crowley
228–Kanji in Context by Nishiguchi and Kono
524–Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
1075–Y. Maniette's French adaptation of Heisig
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