Word Meaning 課長

かちょう kachou

課長 is read as かちょう (kachou) and means section manager.

Meaning

English

  1. section manager
  2. section chief

Reading

Kana

かちょう

Romaji

kachou

Stroke Sequence

2 Characters • 23 Total Strokes

Study Signals and Categories

JLPT N2 Jōyō Grade 4 Kanken 7級 Related Words 社長,専務,常務,役員,部長,次長,係長,無礼講 Rank 1376 Priority A

Related Vocabulary

Max. 12

課長代理

かちょうだいり

deputy manager

人事課長

じんじかちょう

head of personnel department

業務課長

ぎょうむかちょう

head of business department

担当課長

たんとうかちょう

section manager

鬼課長

おにかちょう

unsympathetic manager

課題

かだい

homework

課税

かぜい

taxation

counter for lessons and chapters (of a book)

課程

かてい

course

課員

かいん

section staff

課する

かする

to impose (a tax, fine, etc.)

課外

かがい

extracurricular

Example Sentences

10

かいぎではかちょうがさきにはなしはじめた。

At the meeting, the section chief began speaking first.

He was promoted to section chief.

You don't have proper dignity as chief of the section.

The section chief altered the plan.

The recommendation from my boss made all the difference.

The section chief seems to like abusing his authority.

Our section chief always makes a face at me when I ask him for something.

The section chief said out of the blue: "Women and meat, I like them a little rotten."

Ikeda made several silly mistakes, and so he was told off by the department head.

Then, while saying this, the memories of the men who had seduced her, her husband's colleague who had approached her as if it were a joke, the section chief with whom she had held hands, her relative who she had tried to kiss while she was drunk, shined as if projected upon a broken mirror.