Kanji

Jōyō kanji, Taught in grade 3

JLPT level: N4

439 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Stroke count: 5

Meaning: attend, doing, official, serve

Kunyomi: つか.える

Onyomi:

Composition:

Radical

Radical:

Reading: にんべん

Meaning: man, human

Strokes: 2

Examples

Examples with audio

方(しかた)   way, method

事(しごと)   work

方がない(しかたがない)   it can't be helped

組み(しくみ)   structure

(きゅうじ)   waiter

上げる(しあげる)   finish up

返しする(しかえしする)   revenge

送りする(しおくりする)   remit

える(つかえる)   serve [v.i.]

え(みやづかえ)   court service

Onyomi Examples

official, civil service

試合 シアイ match, game, bout, contest

社会奉 シャカイホウシ voluntary social service

勤労奉 キンロウホウシ labor service, labour service

込み ジコミ learned at ..., acquired at ...

シチョウ men pressed into forced labor (ritsuryō system), palanquin bearer (Edo period)

チシ resignation, seventy years of age

Kunyomi Examples

える つかえる to serve, to work for, to attend