係かかり

noun

person in charge; duty; charge

Refers to a person assigned to a specific task or role, or the role itself. Common in workplace and organizational contexts.

See also: 掛かり (かかり)

• 会かい計けいの係かかりを任まかされた。

  I was put in charge of accounting.

• 受うけ付つけの係かかりはどこですか。

  Where is the person in charge of reception?

noun

connection; linking

Linguistics term, almost exclusively used in the phrase 係り結び (kakari-musubi), referring to a classical Japanese grammatical construction where certain particles link to specific sentence-ending forms.

See also: 係り結び

• 古こ文ぶんの授じゅ業ぎょうで係かかり結むすびの法ほう則そくを習ならった。

  We learned the rule of kakari-musubi in classical Japanese class.