| 194 | A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese (Florence Sakade) |
| 280 | A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese 3rd edition (Henshall, Seeley and De Groot) |
| 262 | A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall) |
| 194 | A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage |
| 1384 | Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson) |
| 422 | Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill) |
| 482 | Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki) |
| 514 | Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill) |
| 170 | Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky) |
| 170 | Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky) |
| 228 | Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono) |
| 524 | Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide |
| 3800 | Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern) |
| 1943 | Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern) |
| 2636 | Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern) |
| 1075 | Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette) |
| 7653 | Morohashi |
| 3063 | New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern) |
| 1412 | New Nelson (John Haig) |
| 1066 | Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig) |
| 1147 | Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig) |
| 228 | The Kanji Way to Japanese Language Power (Dale Crowley) |
| 279 | Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask) |
bureau, board, office, affair, conclusion, court lady, lady-in-waiting, her apartment
Jōyō kanji, taught in grade 3
JLPT level N3
286 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers
Stroke order
On reading compounds
- 局 【キョク】 bureau, department, office (e.g. post, telephone), broadcasting station (e.g. television, radio), channel, exchange, affair, situation, game (of go, shogi, etc.)
- 局員 【キョクイン】 clerk, (bureau, post-office) staff
- 医局 【イキョク】 medical office (esp. in a hospital), doctor's office
- 開局 【カイキョク】 opening (of a broadcasting station, post office, bureau, etc.), establishment
Kun reading compounds
- 局 【つぼね】 court lady (Heian period), lady-in-waiting, separate room in a palace (esp. for a lady; Heian period), room for a very low class prostitute, very low class prostitute
- 局女郎 【つぼねじょろう】 prostitute of the lowest class (Edo period)
- 御局 【おつぼね】 court lady with her own private chamber or office, low-class prostitute (Edo period)
- お局 【おつぼね】 senior female worker who supervises junior employees in a domineering fashion
Readings
- Korean:
- gug
Spanish
- oficina
- departamento
Portuguese
- junta
- escritório
- caso
- conclusão
- dama da corte
- amante
- apartamento dela
French
- local
- pièce
- bureau
- affaire
- conclusion
- dame de cour
- dame d'honneur
- son appartement à elle
| 3749 | 2001 Kanji |
| 3r4.4 | The Kanji Dictionary |
| 3-3-4 | SKIP code |
| 3-4-3 | SKIP code |
| 7722.7 | Four corner code |
| 1-22-41 | JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code |
| 5c40 | Unicode hex code |
Jōyō kanji, taught in grade 2
JLPT level N4
559 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers
Stroke order
On reading compounds
- 紙 【シ】 newspaper
- 紙上 【シジョウ】 on paper, in the newspapers, in a letter
- 原稿用紙 【ゲンコウヨウシ】 Japanese writing paper (lined with a square grid, one square per character), manuscript paper
- 製紙 【セイシ】 papermaking, paper manufacture
Kun reading compounds
- 紙 【かみ】 paper
- 紙芝居 【かみしばい】 kamishibai, storytelling with pictures, form of Japanese street theater and storytelling (popular from the 1930s to the 1950s)
- インディア紙 【インディアかみ】 India paper
- 頸上 【くびかみ】 neckband, round upright collar (on some traditional Japanese clothing)
Readings
- Korean:
- ji
Spanish
- papel
- periódico
Portuguese
- Papel
French
- papier
| 85 | A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese (Florence Sakade) |
| 148 | A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese 3rd edition (Henshall, Seeley and De Groot) |
| 132 | A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall) |
| 501 | A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage |
| 3510 | Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson) |
| 362 | Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill) |
| 236 | Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki) |
| 1953 | Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill) |
| 2.2 | Japanese for Busy People |
| 180 | Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky) |
| 180 | Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky) |
| 243 | Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono) |
| 1517 | Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide |
| 1654 | Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern) |
| 879 | Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern) |
| 1197 | Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern) |
| 1846 | Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette) |
| 27293 | Morohashi |
| 1302 | New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern) |
| 4455 | New Nelson (John Haig) |
| 1829 | Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig) |
| 1971 | Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig) |
| 456 | The Kanji Way to Japanese Language Power (Dale Crowley) |
| 194 | Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask) |
| 2756 | 2001 Kanji |
| 6a4.4 | The Kanji Dictionary |
| 1-6-4 | SKIP code |
| 2294.0 | Four corner code |
| 1-27-70 | JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code |
| 7d19 | Unicode hex code |