Japanese symbol for “comptroller”
監事
かんじ
Romaji: kanji
auditor; controller; comptroller
In Japanese, comptroller is 監事, read かんじ (kanji).
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Meanings
- n auditor; controller; comptroller (law)
- n supervisor; inspector; manager
Kanji and stroke order
Other Japanese words for “comptroller”
| Word | Reading | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 監査官 | かんさかん kansakan | inspector; auditor; examiner |
Related words
Words that share a kanji.
| Word | Reading | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 監督 | かんとく kantoku | supervision; control; superintendence |
| 監視 | かんし kanshi | monitoring; watching; observation |
| 監禁 | かんきん kankin | confinement; imprisonment; incarceration |
| 監査 | かんさ kansa | inspection; audit; judgement |
| 監修 | かんしゅう kanshuu | (editorial) supervision; general editorship |
| 監獄 | かんごく kangoku | prison |
| 仕事 | しごと shigoto | work; job; labor |
| 事件 | じけん jiken | event; affair; incident |
See also: Chinese symbol for “comptroller”.
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.