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社

Company
Stroke count: 7

Readings

On readingシャ
Kun readingやしろ
JLPT level: N4JōyōGrade 2Level 5

Verbs with «社»

入社する

Meanings

  1. companyRtK
    上位２社で市場の５０％を上回るシェアを占めている。Between them, the two largest companies account for a share of more than 50% of the market.tatoeba
    東京日日新聞社の記者となり社説を執筆。He became a reporter for Tokyo Nichinichi Newspaper Company and wrote for the editorial column.wiki
  2. association
  3. firm
  4. office
  5. shrine
    この社はジュピターにささげられたものだ。This shrine is sacred to Jupiter.tatoeba
    霊はこの世のどこにもいらっしゃいます。この学園はお社の跡地に作られていますので、特にお集まりになる傾向があります。Spirits are to be found all over the world. This school was built upon the site of a shrine and thus there is a particular tendency for them to gather.tatoeba
  1. society

Popular Usage

会社社会社長神社新聞社社説商社社会科学

Radicals and components

Radical示spirit礻variant
Components
How it's built
社
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Mnemonic (RtK)

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altar (示) · soil (土) · dirt (土) · ground (土)

From "Remembering the Kanji" by James Heisig · Frame 1173

Compound words

会社かいしゃ
company; corporation; firm; one's workplace
社会しゃかい
society; public; community; the world; social studies
社長しゃちょう
company president; manager; director
神社じんじゃ
Shinto shrine
新聞社しんぶんしゃ
newspaper company
社説しゃせつ
editorial; leading article; leader
商社しょうしゃ
trading company
社会科学しゃかいかがく
social science
社員しゃいん
company employee; member of a corporation; company stockholder (esp. in legal contexts)
社債しゃさい
corporate bond; corporate debenture
会社員かいしゃいん
company employee; office worker; white-collar worker
貴社きしゃ
your company; your shrine
結社けっしゃ
association; society
御社おんしゃ
your company; your shrine
公社こうしゃ
public corporation
支社ししゃ
branch office
自社じしゃ
one's company; company one works for; in-house; belonging to the company
社外しゃがい
outside the company
社交しゃこう
social life; social intercourse
社宅しゃたく
company housing; housing provided by one's company
社内しゃない
within a company; in-house; within a shrine; shrine precincts
社名しゃめい
company name; name of a company
出社しゅっしゃ
going to work (e.g. in the morning); coming to work
全社ぜんしゃ
the whole company; all the companies

On Reading Examples

東京株式市場では４５０社以上の株が店頭で取り引きされている。しゃ
In the Tokyo stock market, stocks of about 450 companies are traded over the counter.tatoeba
製品仕様にかかわる一切の工業所有権はＡＢＣ社に帰属するものとする。しゃ
Any industrial property rights relating to the Product Specification shall belong to ABC Inc.tatoeba

Additional Examples

彼は保険会社の重役である。
He is an executive in an insurance company.tatoeba
彼は保険会社に就職した。
He took a job with an insurance company.tatoeba
彼は父親の会社の経営を引き継いだ。
He has taken charge of his father's company.tatoeba
彼は父親の会社の営業を引き継いだ。
He has taken charge of his father's company.tatoeba
現在の社会的認知
Current social recognitionwiki
社会文化人類学者
Social Cultural Anthropologistswiki
社長は田中源太郎。
The company president is Gentaro TANAKA.wiki
父は山陽新聞社長。
His father was the president of Sanyo Shimbun (newspaper publishing company in Okayama Prefecture).wiki
西安交通大学人民社会科学院
People's Academy of Social Sciences at Xi'an Jiaotong Universitywiki
A群 人文科学・社会科学系科目。
Group A : Humanities and social scienceswiki

Stroke Order

7 strokes

Company; shrine. 礻 (altar) + 土 (earth) — an altar to the local spirit where people gathered.

Practice Writing

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