判官

Noun

 * 1)  magistrate
 * 2)  judge
 * 3)  official who assists Yama in the underworld

Etymology 1
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Noun

 * 1)  a

Etymology 2
はんがん → はうがん → ほうがん

Minamoto no Yoshitsune was a at a.

Etymology 3
From the on-reading of, one of the many department/agency-specific spellings of itself, in this case specific to a. The alternative reading, ぞう, is a result of depalatalization which is not uncommon.

じょう → ぞう

Noun

 * 1)  the third rank among the, a system ranking and entitling officials under the ; this is the most generic spelling; for each department and agency, a specific spelling and alternative readings of that spelling might be preferred

Etymology 4
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