Meaning of かんちょう in Japanese
Definition of かんちょう
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(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.
- (n) Cabinet (Chief) Secretary
- (n) captain (of a warship)
- (n) (a) spy
- (n) superintendent; director; curator; chief librarian
- (n) superintendent priest; chief abbot
- (n) Han Dynasty
- (n) one's best form
- (n) low tide; low water; ebb
- (n) (Buddh) baptism-like ceremony performed by the buddhas on a bodhisattva who attains buddhahood
- (Buddh) baptism-like ceremony for conferring onto someone precepts, a mystic teaching, etc. (in esoteric Buddhism)
- (Buddh) pouring water onto a gravestone
- teaching esoteric techniques, compositions, etc. (in Japanese poetry or music)