First opened Saturday, November 5, 2016
官僚
かんりょう
- flat (heiban)
How to read it: a line over a kana means the voice is high there, and ↓ marks where it drops. A kana with no line is low. With no ↓ the pitch stays high to the end and does not drop even on a following particle (が, は).
bureaucrat, bureaucracy
Taken apart
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In a sentence
彼の辞職で官僚の席に空きができた。
His resignation left a vacancy in the cabinet.
官僚達は大企業との強固な関係を維持している。
The bureaucrats maintain solid ties with the gigantic corporations.
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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.