English: company firm office association shrine	On-Yomi: シャ	Kun-Yomi: やしろ こそ

Bushu (Radical) Info: 示 (しめす) – show

Henshall Mnemonic: altar ground is shrine

Levels: JLPT N4 | JLPT 4 (old) | Grade 2
Frequency: #21 of the 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Common Words and/or Phrases Using this Kanji:

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JLPT N5 Words

• 会社   [かいしゃ]
  (n) company; corporation   [K] [D] [Jisho]

JLPT N4 Words

• 社会   [しゃかい]
  (n) society; public   [K] [D] [Jisho]
• 新聞社   [しんぶんしゃ]
  (n) newspaper company   [K] [D] [Jisho]
• 神社   [じんじゃ]
  (n) Shinto shrine   [K] [D] [Jisho]
• 社長   [しゃちょう]
  (n) company president; manager; director   [K] [D] [Jisho]

JLPT N2 Words

• 社会科学   [しゃかいかがく]
  social science   [K] [D] [Jisho]
• 入社   [にゅうしゃ]
  (n,vs) entry to a company   [K] [D] [Jisho]
• 社説   [しゃせつ]
  (n) editorial; leading article   [K] [D] [Jisho]
• 商社   [しょうしゃ]
  (n) trading company; firm   [K] [D] [Jisho]

JLPT N1 Words

• 社交   [しゃこう]
  (n) social life; social intercourse   [K] [D] [Jisho]
• 社宅   [しゃたく]
  (n) company owned house   [K] [D] [Jisho]

Other Popular Words Not Classified by JLPT

• 全社   [ぜんしゃ]
  (n) whole company   [K] [D] [Jisho]
• 親会社   [おやがいしゃ]
  (n) parent company   [K] [D] [Jisho]
• 同社   [どうしゃ]
  (n) the same firm   [K] [D] [Jisho]
• 公社   [こうしゃ]
  (n) public corporation   [K] [D] [Jisho]
• 公社債   [こうしゃさい]
  (n) public bonds   [K] [D] [Jisho]
• 市民社会   [しみんしゃかい]
  civil society   [K] [D] [Jisho]
• 講談社   [こうだんしゃ]
  Koudansha (publisher)   [K] [D] [Jisho]
• 自社   [じしゃ]
  (n) private company   [K] [D] [Jisho]
• 支社   [ししゃ]
  (n) branch office   [K] [D] [Jisho]
• 本社   [ほんしゃ]
  (n) head office; main office; headquarters   [K] [D] [Jisho]
• 当社   [とうしゃ]
  (n) (this) shrine; (this) firm   [K] [D] [Jisho]
• 社員   [しゃいん]
  (n) company employee   [K] [D] [Jisho]
• 社屋   [しゃおく]
  (n) company office building   [K] [D] [Jisho]
• 出版社   [しゅっぱんしゃ]
  (n) publisher   [K] [D] [Jisho]
• 社会運動   [しゃかいうんどう]
  social movement   [K] [D] [Jisho]
• 社会科   [しゃかいか]
  (n) social studies   [K] [D] [Jisho]
• 社会学   [しゃかいがく]
  (n) sociology   [K] [D] [Jisho]
• 社会教育   [しゃかいきょういく]
  social education   [K] [D] [Jisho]
• 地域社会   [ちいきしゃかい]
  regional community   [K] [D] [Jisho]
• 社会資本   [しゃかいしほん]
  SOC; social capital   [K] [D] [Jisho]
• 子会社   [こがいしゃ]
  (n) subsidiary   [K] [D] [Jisho]
• 社会事業   [しゃかいじぎょう]
  social work   [K] [D] [Jisho]
• 社会主義   [しゃかいしゅぎ]
  socialism   [K] [D] [Jisho]
• 結社   [けっしゃ]
  (n) association; society   [K] [D] [Jisho]
• 社会人   [しゃかいじん]
  (n) upstanding member of society   [K] [D] [Jisho]

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Acknowledgments

The sofware used to generate this kanji information uses the EDICT and KANJIDIC files. These files are the property of the Electronic Dictionary Research and Development Group at Monash University and are used in conformance with the Group's license.

NOTE: I converted the sources just mentioned years ago and have never really updated so there may be some missing or incorrect information that has been addressed in the original sources but not here.

The first Stroke Order image used on this page is courtesy of Ulrich Apel's excellent open source KanjiVG project. The second image is from the folks at the excellent Jisho Japanese-English dictionary site and it too is based on KanjiVG.

Classifying the kanji and popular vocabulary by the new JLPT levels was done by consulting Jonathan Waller‘s JLPT Resources page, renshuu, Wictionary, and Nihongo Ichiban.

The Henshall Mnemonics are the copyright of Tuttle Publishing and are the result of the hard work by Professor Henshall. See the list I used here.

If you are curious about the lexicography shown in the word definitions, visit the WWWJDIC abbreviations and codes guide and the JMdict/Edict Lexicographical details page.