Word Meaning 大臣

だいじん daijin

大臣 is read as だいじん (daijin) and means cabinet minister.

Meaning

English

  1. cabinet minister

Reading

Kana

だいじん

Romaji

daijin

Stroke Sequence

2 Characters • 10 Total Strokes

Study Signals and Categories

JLPT N2 Jōyō Grade 4 Kanken 7級 Rank 2992 Priority A

Related Vocabulary

Max. 12

大蔵大臣

おおくらだいじん

Minister of Finance

大臣政務官

だいじんせいむかん

parliamentary secretary

大臣柱

だいじんばしら

downstage left pillar (on a noh stage)

内大臣

ないだいじん

Lord Keeper of the Privy Seal (1885-1945)

総理大臣

そうりだいじん

prime minister (as the head of a cabinet government)

国務大臣

こくむだいじん

minister of state

国土交通大臣

こくどこうつうだいじん

Minister of Land, Infrastructure and Transport

経済産業大臣

けいざいさんぎょうだいじん

Minister of Economy, Trade and Industry

通商産業大臣

つうしょうさんぎょうだいじん

Minister of International Trade and Industry

自治大臣

じちだいじん

Minister of Home Affairs

文部科学大臣

もんぶかがくだいじん

Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology

先の総理大臣

さきのそうりだいじん

former prime minister

Example Sentences

10

The Prime Minister resigned yesterday.

The minister approved the building plans.

The foreign minister attended the talks.

Mr Koizumi succeeded Mr Mori as prime minister.

The prime minister is to make a statement tomorrow.

The Prime Minister has won his services as Minister for Justice.

Kouchner, the French Minister for Foreign Affairs, advocated the G14 group.

Mr Suzuki, who is a former Prime Minister, will be chairman of the committee.

Three nurses attended the dying minister night and day.

If I were prime minister, I'd give Clinton a good talking to.