First opened Monday, May 12, 2014
公務員
こうむいん
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government worker, public servant
Taken apart
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In a sentence
私は公務員です。
I'm a government worker.
公務員が秘密を漏らして、秘密漏洩罪として罰せられた。
The public servant leaked the secret and he was prosecuted for revealing a state secret.
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What Wiktionary says
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What the labels mean
- 漢語 Sino-Japanese
- Words built from Chinese-derived morphemes — borrowed from Chinese or coined in Japan out of Chinese parts — read with on'yomi.