きょく

Japanese

For pronunciation and definitions of きょく – see the following entries.

【局】3 [noun] bureau, department [noun] channel such as on television [counter] counter for buildings or operators suffixed "局" (e.g. 郵(ゆう)便(びん)局(きょく) (yūbin-kyoku, “post office”), テレビ局(きょく) (terebi-kyoku, “television station”)) [counter] counter for board games (e.g. chess, shogi or go) [suffix] bureau

【曲】3 [noun] a piece of music

【極】4 [noun] extreme, extremity, height, zenith [noun] (physics, astronomy, geometry) pole

【巨躯】 [noun] (of a person) a large figure, a large body

(This term, きょく, is the hiragana spelling of the above terms.) For a list of all kanji read as きょく, see Category:Japanese kanji read as きょく.)