幹

Selected Words with Definitions from WWWJDIC

• 幹部 かんぶ management; (executive) staff; leaders (n) ****
• 幹事 かんじ executive secretary; coordinator; arranging (n,vs,exp) ****
• 新幹線 しんかんせん bullet train (very high speed); shinkansen (n) **
• 幹 かん (tree) trunk (n) *
• 根幹 こんかん basis; nucleus; root and branch (n) *
• 幹線 かんせん main line; trunk line (n)
• 主幹 しゅかん chief editor; managing editor; manager (n)
• 基幹 きかん mainstay; nucleus; key (n)
• 語幹 ごかん stem; root of a word (n)