signature, govt office, police station
署 centers on an official place where records are kept and signed: a government office or police station. The signature sense comes from the act of signing official documents in such a setting.
署 combines 罒 (net) and 者 (person/thing), originally suggesting a place where things are arranged or recorded. The modern meanings of office and signature developed from the idea of an official place for documentation.
The top 罒 looks like a net or grid, like the organized shelves of an office. The bottom 者 suggests a person or thing. Picture a person working at a desk in a government office, signing documents under a grid-like organizational chart.
For ショ, imagine a police officer showing their badge at the station: show -> ショ, and the officer is at the 署.
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station (esp. a police station); office (e.g. tax office)
signature; autograph
one's post; one's station; department; bureau; section
chief (of police); head (of office)
tax office
fire station
staff member; station employee; official
the (above-mentioned) authorities; police (from said station)
substation; branch office
Labour Standards Inspection Office (abbr)
police headquarters; main office; this office
online petition
digital signature
digital signature
digital signature algorithm
online petition
chief for the day (PR event in which a celebrity heads a police, fire, etc. department for a day)
sign for another
government office
joint signatures