Meaning of かんちょう in Japanese

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Definition of かんちょう

  1. (n) government office; authorities

    どの官庁もお役所主義にはまり込まないで、仕事のスピードアップをはかるという点において問題があるようだ。
    Every government office seems to have problems in expediting matters without entanglement in its red tape system.

  1. (n) Cabinet (Chief) Secretary
  1. (n) captain (of a warship)
  1. (n) (a) spy
  1. (n) superintendent; director; curator; chief librarian
  1. (n, vs) (giving an) enema

    浣腸をしました。
    I gave him an enema.

  2. prank where the anal region of another person is poked with index fingers
  1. (n) superintendent priest; chief abbot
  1. (n) Han Dynasty
  1. (n) one's best form
  1. (n) low tide; low water; ebb →Related words: 満潮
  1. (n) (Buddh) baptism-like ceremony performed by the buddhas on a bodhisattva who attains buddhahood
  2. (Buddh) baptism-like ceremony for conferring onto someone precepts, a mystic teaching, etc. (in esoteric Buddhism)
  3. (Buddh) pouring water onto a gravestone
  4. teaching esoteric techniques, compositions, etc. (in Japanese poetry or music)

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