Jōyō kanji, Taught in grade 3
JLPT level: N4
18 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers
Stroke count: 8
Meaning: matter, thing, fact, business, reason, possibly
Kunyomi: こと つか.う つか.える
Onyomi: ジ ズ
Composition: 口 ⺕ 亅
Radical: 亅
Reading: たてぼう
Meaning: hook
Strokes: 1
事故（じこ） accident
食事（しょくじ） meal
用事（ようじ） business, engagement
火事（かじ） fire
返事（へんじ） reply
工事中（こうじちゅう） under construction
大事な（だいじな） important, valuable
お大事に（おだいじに） take care (to a sick person)
好事家（こうずか） dilettante
事（こと） (abstract) thing
仕事（しごと） work
事 （ジ） individual concrete phenomenon (as opposed to a general principle)
事業 （ジギョウ） project, enterprise, business, industry, operations, venture, service, act, deed, conduct
商事 （ショウジ） commercial affairs
有事 （ユウジ） emergency
事 （こと） thing, matter, incident, occurrence, event, something serious, trouble, crisis, circumstances, situation, state of affairs, work, business, affair, after an inflectable word, creates a noun phrase indicating something the speaker does not feel close to, nominalizing suffix, pretending to ..., playing make-believe ..., alias, also known as, otherwise known as, or, necessity, need, you should ..., I advise that you ..., it's important to ...
事柄 （ことがら） matter, thing, affair, circumstance
神事 （しんじ） Shinto ritual
いい事 （いいこと） good thing, nice thing, good excuse, good grounds, good opportunity, interjection used to impress an idea or to urge a response
仕える （つかえる） to serve, to work for, to attend
Jōyō kanji, Taught in grade 3
JLPT level: N4
18 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers
Stroke count: 8
Meaning: matter, thing, fact, business, reason, possibly
Kunyomi: こと つか.う つか.える
Onyomi: ジ ズ
Composition: 口 ⺕ 亅
Radical: 亅
Reading: たてぼう
Meaning: hook
Strokes: 1
事故（じこ） accident
食事（しょくじ） meal
用事（ようじ） business, engagement
火事（かじ） fire
返事（へんじ） reply
工事中（こうじちゅう） under construction
大事な（だいじな） important, valuable
お大事に（おだいじに） take care (to a sick person)
好事家（こうずか） dilettante
事（こと） (abstract) thing
仕事（しごと） work
事 （ジ） individual concrete phenomenon (as opposed to a general principle)
事業 （ジギョウ） project, enterprise, business, industry, operations, venture, service, act, deed, conduct
商事 （ショウジ） commercial affairs
有事 （ユウジ） emergency
事 （こと） thing, matter, incident, occurrence, event, something serious, trouble, crisis, circumstances, situation, state of affairs, work, business, affair, after an inflectable word, creates a noun phrase indicating something the speaker does not feel close to, nominalizing suffix, pretending to ..., playing make-believe ..., alias, also known as, otherwise known as, or, necessity, need, you should ..., I advise that you ..., it's important to ...
事柄 （ことがら） matter, thing, affair, circumstance
神事 （しんじ） Shinto ritual
いい事 （いいこと） good thing, nice thing, good excuse, good grounds, good opportunity, interjection used to impress an idea or to urge a response
仕える （つかえる） to serve, to work for, to attend