Illustration: Outside a small company director's office, a secretary sits at an adjacent workstation, holding a telephone receiver while ushering an arriving visitor toward the director with a welcoming hand.

JLPT N2nounLevel estimated by Bebop

秘ひ書しょ

hisho

secretary

Example sentences

社長しゃちょうはブザーで秘書ひしょを呼よんだ。
The boss buzzed his secretary.
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秘書ひしょは解雇かいこされた。
The secretary was dismissed.
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彼かれは社長しゃちょうの個人こじん秘書ひしょだ。
He is the boss’s private secretary.
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Kanji in 秘書

秘secret; concealOnヒKunひめる・ひそか・かくす
書writeOnショKunかく

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