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Kanji Information Sheet for 委 ( PDF version )
Bushu (Radical) Info:
女 (おんな) – woman
禾 (のぎ) – two branch tree
女 (おんな) – woman
禾 (のぎ) – two branch tree
Henshall Mnemonic: entrust rice plants to woman
Levels: JLPT N2 | JLPT 2 (old) | Grade 3
Frequency: #187 of the 2500 most used kanji in newspapers
Frequency: #187 of the 2500 most used kanji in newspapers
Common Words and/or Phrases Using this Kanji:
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JLPT N3 Words
JLPT N1 Words
- 委託 [いたく]
(n,vs) consign (goods (for sale) to a firm); entrust (person with something); commit [K] [D] [Jisho]
Other Popular Words Not Classified by JLPT
- 議院運営委員会 [ぎいんうんえいいいんかい]
House Steering Committee [K] [D] [Jisho] - 公取委 [こうとりい]
(n) (abbr) Fair Trade Commission [K] [D] [Jisho] - 公正取引委員会 [こうせいとりひきいいんかい]
Fair Trade Commission [K] [D] [Jisho] - 常任委員会 [じょうにんいいんかい]
(n) standing committee [K] [D] [Jisho] - 公安委員会 [こうあんいいんかい]
(n) public safety commission [K] [D] [Jisho] - 教育委員会 [きょういくいいんかい]
Board of Education [K] [D] [Jisho] - 委ねる [ゆだねる]
(v1) to entrust to; to devote oneself to [K] [D] [Jisho] - 委員会 [いいんかい]
(n) committee meeting; committee [K] [D] [Jisho] - 委員長 [いいんちょう]
(n) committee chairman [K] [D] [Jisho] - 委縮 [いしゅく]
(adj-na,n) withering; atrophy; contraction; dwarf [K] [D] [Jisho] - 委嘱 [いしょく]
(n,vs) entrusting (with) [K] [D] [Jisho] - 委任 [いにん]
(n) charge; trust [K] [D] [Jisho] - 執行委員 [しっこういいん]
executive committee [K] [D] [Jisho]
Acknowledgments
The sofware used to generate this kanji information uses the EDICT and KANJIDIC files. These files are the property of the Electronic Dictionary Research and Development Group at Monash University and are used in conformance with the Group's license.NOTE: I converted the sources just mentioned years ago and have never really updated so there may be some missing or incorrect information that has been addressed in the original sources but not here.
The first Stroke Order image used on this page is courtesy of Ulrich Apel's excellent open source KanjiVG project. The second image is from the folks at the excellent Jisho Japanese-English dictionary site and it too is based on KanjiVG.
Classifying the kanji and popular vocabulary by the new JLPT levels was done by consulting Jonathan Waller‘s JLPT Resources page, renshuu, Wictionary, and Nihongo Ichiban.
The Henshall Mnemonics are the copyright of Tuttle Publishing and are the result of the hard work by Professor Henshall. See the list I used here.
If you are curious about the lexicography shown in the word definitions, visit the WWWJDIC abbreviations and codes guide and the JMdict/Edict Lexicographical details page.