Japanese symbol for “administrative”
事務的
じむてき
Romaji: jimuteki
administrative; businesslike; practical
In Japanese, administrative is 事務的, read じむてき (jimuteki).
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Meanings
- adj-na administrative; businesslike; practical
- adj-na impersonal; perfunctory; robot-like
Kanji and stroke order
Other Japanese words for “administrative”
| Word | Reading | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 経営上 | けいえいじょう keieijou | administrative; managerial; operational |
| 管理上 | かんりじょう kanrijou | administrative |
| 行政上 | ぎょうせいじょう gyouseijou | administrative |
| 行政的 | ぎょうせいてき gyouseiteki | administrative; executive |
Related words
Words that share a kanji.
| Word | Reading | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 仕事 | しごと shigoto | work; job; labor |
| 事件 | じけん jiken | event; affair; incident |
| 記事 | きじ kiji | article; news story; report |
| 事業 | じぎょう jigyou | business; enterprise; venture |
| 事故 | じこ jiko | accident; incident; trouble |
| 事実 | じじつ jijitsu | fact; truth; reality |
| 事務所 | じむしょ jimusho | office |
| 事務 | じむ jimu | office work; clerical work; administration |
| 目的 | もくてき mokuteki | purpose; goal; aim |
See also: Chinese symbol for “administrative”.
Data: JMdict (CC BY-SA 4.0); KANJIDIC2 (CC BY-SA 4.0); KanjiVG (CC BY-SA 3.0); wordfreq (CC BY-SA 4.0 (data)). Retrieved 2026-10-22.