臣

Meaning

臣 centers on a person in a subordinate role: a retainer who serves a lord or a subject under a ruler.

• 大臣だいじん
  N3

  cabinet minister

• 臣おみ

  retainer; attendant

• 臣やつこ

  slave

• 家臣かしん

  vassal; retainer

• 臣民しんみん

  subject; national; citizen

• 法務大臣ほうむだいじん

  Minister of Justice

• 臣下しんか

  retainer; subject; vassal; servant

• 朝臣あそん

  Ason (second highest of the eight hereditary titles)

• 忠臣蔵ちゅうしんぐら

  (story of the) Forty-seven Rōnin; the Treasury of Loyal Retainers; Chūshingura

• 国務大臣こくむだいじん

  minister of state; cabinet minister (in Japan)

• 忠臣ちゅうしん

  loyal retainer; loyal subject

• 重臣じゅうしん

  chief vassal; senior statesman

• 老臣ろうしん

  old or key retainer

• 左大臣さだいじん

  Minister of the Left (official in Nara and Heian periods)

• 幕臣ばくしん

  shogunate retainer; shogunate vassal

• 朝臣ちょうしん

  courtier

• 右大臣うだいじん

  Minister of the Right (official in Nara and Heian periods)

• 総理大臣そうりだいじん
  N2

  prime minister (as the head of a cabinet government); premier

• 内大臣ないだいじん

  Lord Keeper of the Privy Seal (1885-1945)

• 内閣総理大臣ないかくそうりだいじん
  N2

  prime minister (as the head of a cabinet government); premier

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