Kanji

Jōyō kanji, Taught in junior high

JLPT level: N1

1264 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Stroke count: 15

Meaning: earnings, work, earn money

Kunyomi: かせ.ぐ

Onyomi:

Composition:

Radical

Radical:

Meaning: grain

Examples

Onyomi Examples

カドウ operation (of a machine), running, working (and earning money)

カセギ earnings

Kunyomi Examples

かせぐ to earn (income), to make (money), to score (points, victory), to gain (time), to play (for time), to work hard (at one's job), to labor, to labour, to toil

ぐに追いつく貧乏なし かせぐにおいつくびんぼうなし poverty is a stranger to industry, diligence is the mother of good fortune