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代官 だいかん

  1. bailiff; local governor (Edo period); local magistrate
  2. acting administrator; deputy official (Middle Ages)
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A free dictionary built on open data (JMdict, KANJIDIC2, Tatoeba). Try a word like 食べる, a kanji like 水, or find a kanji by its parts in the radical search. New to kana, kanji or JLPT? Read the glossary, or see fudami and its data sources.