Kanji

Jōyō kanji, Taught in junior high

JLPT level: N1

831 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Stroke count: 9

Meaning: do, change, make, benefit, welfare, be of use, reach to, try, practice, cost, serve as, good, advantage, as a result of

Kunyomi: ため な.る な.す す.る たり つく.る なり

Onyomi:

Composition:

Radical

Radical:

Meaning: fire

Examples

Onyomi Examples

政者 イセイシャ statesman, administrator, politician, policymaker

公会 イコウカイ Iko-kai (faction of the LDP)

ジンイ human work, human agency, art, artificiality

エイイ business, occupation

Kunyomi Examples

ため good, advantage, benefit, welfare, sake, purpose, objective, aim, consequence, result, effect, affecting, regarding, concerning

ために for, for the sake of, to one's advantage, in favor of, in favour of, on behalf of, because of, as a result of

がいため foreign exchange

念のため ねんのため (just) making sure, just to be sure, just in case, for caution's sake

成る なる to become, to get, to grow, to turn, to reach, to attain, to result in, to turn out, to end up, to prove (to be), to consist of, to be composed of, to be made up of, to be completed, to be realized, to succeed, to be attained, to be accomplished, to change (into), to turn (into), to transform, to come (to do), to begin (to do), to grow (to do), to come to, to amount to, to add up to, to make, to play (the part of), to act as, to be used for, to be useful for, to serve as, to be promoted, to do ...

なす to build up, to establish, to form, to become (a state), to accomplish, to achieve, to succeed in, to change into, to do, to perform, to intend to, to attempt, to try

す術 なすすべ means, method, way

する to do, to carry out, to perform, to cause to become, to make (into), to turn (into), to serve as, to act as, to work as, to wear (clothes, a facial expression, etc.), to judge as being, to view as being, to think of as, to treat as, to use as, to decide on, to choose, to be sensed (of a smell, noise, etc.), to be (in a state, condition, etc.), to be worth, to cost, to pass (of time), to elapse, to place, or raise, person A to a post or status B, to transform A to B, to make A into B, to exchange A for B, to make use of A for B, to view A as B, to handle A as if it were B, to feel A about B, verbalizing suffix (applies to nouns noted in this dictionary with the part of speech "vs"), creates a humble verb (after a noun prefixed with "o" or "go"), to be just about to, to be just starting to, to try to, to attempt to

成り なり promoted (of a piece)

なり手 なりて person willing to take on a role, willing candidate