Kanji

Jōyō kanji, Taught in grade 4

JLPT level: N3

417 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Stroke count: 13

Meaning: work, (kokuji)

Kunyomi: はたら.く

Onyomi: ドウ

Composition:

Radical

Radical:

Reading: にんべん

Meaning: man, human

Strokes: 2

Examples

Examples with audio

(ろうどう)   labor

する(かどうする)   operate (e.g. machine)

く(はたらく)   work [v.i.]

き(したばたらき)   assistant job

き(ともばたらき)   dual income

Onyomi Examples

ジツドウ actual work

シュウドウ being employed, working

Kunyomi Examples

はたらく to work, to labor, to labour, to function, to operate, to be effective, to work (i.e. ... works), to come into play, to commit (e.g. a crime), to perpetrate, to do, to act, to practise, to practice, to be conjugated