社

Meaning

社 centers on a structured group of people gathered around a shared purpose or place: a company, firm, association, or shrine. The shrine sense is the original concrete gathering place, while the modern organizational meanings extend that idea to secular institutions.

• 会社かいしゃ
  N5

  company; corporation; firm

• 社会しゃかい
  N4

  society; public; community; the world

• 社長しゃちょう
  N5

  company president; manager; director

• 株式会社かぶしきがいしゃ

  stock company; corporation; kabushiki kaisha; KK

• 社員しゃいん
  N4

  company employee

• 神社じんじゃ
  N5

  Shinto shrine

• 本社ほんしゃ
  N4

  head office; main office; headquarters; parent company

• 入社にゅうしゃ
  N3

  joining a company; getting a job with a company; starting work at a company

• 自社じしゃ

  one's company; company one works for

• 同社どうしゃ

  the same company; the said firm

• 社内しゃない

  within a company; in-house

• 他社たしゃ

  another company; other company

• 子会社こがいしゃ

  subsidiary (company)

• 当社とうしゃ

  this company; this firm

• 社交しゃこう
  N1

  social life; social intercourse

• 弊社へいしゃ
  N1

  our company; our firm

• 退社たいしゃ

  resignation; leaving office

• 社名しゃめい

  company name; name of a company

• 出社しゅっしゃ
  N1

  going to work (e.g. in the morning); coming to work

• 商社しょうしゃ
  N2

  trading company

• 支社ししゃ
  N1

  branch office

• 靖国神社やすくにじんじゃ

  Yasukuni Shrine

• 大社たいしゃ

  grand shrine; famous shrine

• 結社けっしゃ

  association; society

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