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Kanji Detail for 事 - "matter, thing, work"

事

  • Meaning

    事 means "matter, thing, work."

    1. Matter - An affair; a thing.

    2. Work - A task; a job.

    3. Serve - To attend to duties.

  • Words using 事

    • 事件 じけん Listen event; affair; incident
    • 事務 じむ Listen office work; clerical work; administration
    • 事実 じじつ Listen fact; truth; reality
    • 事情 じじょう Listen circumstances; conditions; situation
    • 事故 じこ Listen accident; incident; trouble
    • 事業 じぎょう Listen business; enterprise; venture
    • 仕事 しごと Listen work; job; labor
    • 幹事 かんじ Listen executive secretary; coordinator; organizer

  • Four-character idioms with 事

    • 事実無根 じじつむこん Listen groundless; entirely contrary to fact
    • 年中行事 ねんちゅうぎょうじ Listen annual function; annual event
    • 後生大事 ごしょうだいじ Listen with religious zeal; with utmost devotion; take great care of
    • 既成事実 きせいじじつ Listen established fact; fait accompli
    • 万事万端 ばんじばんたん Listen everything; all things; all affairs
    • 不祥事件 ふしょうじけん Listen scandal; disgraceful incident; scandalous affair

  • Tattoo check: 事

    • Verified meaning: matter, thing, work
    • Official Jōyō kanji — a standard character every Japanese reader recognises
    • Used in real Japanese given names (read こと, ことざき, つかえ, つとむ)

    A single kanji rarely maps one-to-one onto an English word. Read the meanings and associations above as a set — a character that fits the dictionary definition can still carry a connotation you did not intend.

  • Name readings of 事

    Given names 事(こと)Listen 事(つとむ)Listen

    Surnames 事(ことざき)Listen 事(つかえ)Listen

  • Dictionary Citations

    The meaning above is based on the following sources:

    KANJIDIC2 A comprehensive Japanese-English kanji dictionary

    matter; thing; fact; business; reason; possibly

    Unihan Unicode Han Database for CJK characters

    affair, matter, business; to serve; accident, incident

    CC-CEDICT A Chinese-English dictionary

    matter; thing; item; work; affair; CL:件[jian4],樁|桩[zhuang1],回[hui2]

    Make Me a Hanzi Open-source Chinese character data

    affair, matter, business; to serve; accident, incident

    XSZD Xuéshēng Zìdiǎn (學生字典) - Student's Dictionary

    The general term for human actions. (Book of Documents, Great Plan) "Reverently use the five activities: first appearance, second speech, third sight, fourth hearing, fifth thought." Any other action that has consciousness and can be named is called 事. Combining various actions organized by one consciousness is also called 事. | To do. Such as 無所事事, meaning having nothing to do. | To serve. Such as a child serving parents. | An incident; an accident. Such as 四方無事, meaning no calamities in all directions. | One item of something. Colloquially also called 一事.

  • Onyomi

    tip

    ji(ジ) ジ

    zu(ズ) ズ

  • Kunyomi

    tip

    koto(こと) こと

    tsuka.eru(つか-える) つか-える

    tsukau(つか-う) つか-う

  • Strokes

    tip

    8 strokes

  • Radical

    tip

    亅 (hanebo・kagi)

  • Related Keywords

    matter thing work serve affair business circumstance concern duty event incident issue job obligation occurrence responsibility situation subject task topic transaction undertaking

Sentences including 事

  • You need not answer the letter.

  • You don't have to work on sundays.

  • All of a sudden , a fire broke out in the movie theater.

  • She will cope with all the work.

  • I've left that line of business.

  • Few know the truth of the matter.

  • I had an accident at work.

  • Take care of yourself.

  • It is the fact that i want to know.

  • I'm very ashamed of myself about what i've done.

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