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Kanji Information Sheet for 事 ( PDF version )
Bushu (Radical) Info: 亅 (はねぼう) – feathered stick barb
Henshall Mnemonic: handling ten boxes is no small thing
Levels: JLPT N4 | JLPT 3 (old) | Grade 3
Frequency: #18 of the 2500 most used kanji in newspapers
Frequency: #18 of the 2500 most used kanji in newspapers
Common Words and/or Phrases Using this Kanji:
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JLPT N5 Words
JLPT N4 Words
- 火事 [かじ]
(n) fire; conflagration [K] [D] [Jisho] - 食事 [しょくじ]
(n,vs) meal [K] [D] [Jisho] - 事故 [じこ]
(n) accident; incident; trouble; circumstances; reasons [K] [D] [Jisho] - 返事 [へんじ]
(n,vs) reply; answer [K] [D] [Jisho] - 事務所 [じむしょ]
(n) office [K] [D] [Jisho] - 用事 [ようじ]
(n) tasks; things to do [K] [D] [Jisho] - 大事 [だいじ]
(adj-na,n) important; valuable; serious matter [K] [D] [Jisho]
JLPT N3 Words
- 無事 [ぶじ]
(adj-na,n) safety; peace; quietness [K] [D] [Jisho] - 刑事 [けいじ]
(n) criminal case; (police) detective [K] [D] [Jisho] - 事件 [じけん]
(n) event; affair; incident; case; plot; trouble; scandal [K] [D] [Jisho] - 知事 [ちじ]
(n) prefectural governor [K] [D] [Jisho] - 事実 [じじつ]
(n-adv,n) fact; truth; reality [K] [D] [Jisho] - 事情 [じじょう]
(n) circumstances; consideration; conditions; situation; reasons [K] [D] [Jisho] - 事態 [じたい]
(n) situation; present state of affairs; circumstances [K] [D] [Jisho] - 事務 [じむ]
(n) business; office work [K] [D] [Jisho] - 事務員 [じむいん]
(n) clerk [K] [D] [Jisho] - 家事 [かじ]
(n) housework; domestic chores [K] [D] [Jisho] - 物事 [ものごと]
(n) things; everything [K] [D] [Jisho] - 見事 [みごと]
(adj-na,n) splendid; magnificent; beautiful; admirable [K] [D] [Jisho] - 出来事 [できごと]
(n) incident; affair; happening; event [K] [D] [Jisho] - 記事 [きじ]
(n) article; news story; report; account [K] [D] [Jisho] - 事 [こと]
(n) thing; matter; fact; circumstances; business; reason; experience [K] [D] [Jisho]
JLPT N2 Words
JLPT N1 Words
Other Popular Words Not Classified by JLPT
- 領事館 [りょうじかん]
(n) consulate [K] [D] [Jisho] - 議事 [ぎじ]
(n) proceedings [K] [D] [Jisho] - 議事録 [ぎじろく]
(n) record of proceedings; minutes [K] [D] [Jisho] - 刑事事件 [けいじじけん]
criminal case [K] [D] [Jisho] - 交通事故 [こうつうじこ]
traffic accident [K] [D] [Jisho] - 刑事責任 [けいじせきにん]
criminal liability [K] [D] [Jisho] - 事業所 [じぎょうしょ]
(n) plant; enterprise place; office [K] [D] [Jisho] - 事後 [じご]
(n) after-; post-; ex- [K] [D] [Jisho] - 山火事 [やまかじ]
(n) bushfire [K] [D] [Jisho] - 理事 [りじ]
(n) director; board of directors [K] [D] [Jisho] - 叙事詩 [じょじし]
(n) descriptive poetry; epic poem [K] [D] [Jisho] - 事実上 [じじつじょう]
(n,adj-no) (as a) matter of fact; actually; in reality [K] [D] [Jisho] - 事実無根 [じじつむこん]
(n) groundless; entirely contrary to fact [K] [D] [Jisho] - 事象 [じしょう]
(n) phenomenon; matter [K] [D] [Jisho] - 府知事 [ふちじ]
(n) prefectural governor [K] [D] [Jisho] - 師事 [しじ]
(n,vs) study under; looking up; apprentice oneself [K] [D] [Jisho] - 宇宙開発事業団 [うちゅうかいはつじぎょうだん]
NASDA; National Space Development Agency [K] [D] [Jisho] - 総領事 [そうりょうじ]
(n) consul general [K] [D] [Jisho] - 仕事場 [しごとば]
(n) place where one works; construction site; working area [K] [D] [Jisho] - 当事 [とうじ]
(n) matter under concern [K] [D] [Jisho] - 事典 [じてん]
(n) cyclopedia; encyclopedia [K] [D] [Jisho] - 当事者 [とうじしゃ]
(n) person concerned; interested party [K] [D] [Jisho] - 事変 [じへん]
(n) accident; disaster; incident; uprising; emergency [K] [D] [Jisho] - 何事 [なにごと]
(n) (1) what; something; everything; (2) nothing (with neg. verb) [K] [D] [Jisho] - 人事異動 [じんじいどう]
personnel change; personnel shift; reshuffle; (annual) staff reassignment [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.