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Kanji Detail for 給 - "salary"

給

  • Meaning

    給 means "salary." Also associated with to give, sufficient.

    1. Give - To provide; to supply.

    2. Salary - Payment for work.

    3. Sufficient - Enough; adequate.

  • Words using 給

    • 供給 きょうきゅう Listen supply; provision
    • 支給 しきゅう Listen provision; supply; payment
    • 給与 きゅうよ Listen pay; salary; wages
    • 給料 きゅうりょう Listen salary; wages; pay
    • 給食 きゅうしょく Listen provision of lunch (e.g. at office, school, etc.); providing a meal; lunch service
    • 需給 じゅきゅう Listen supply and demand
    • 給付 きゅうふ Listen provision (of money or goods); furnishing; conferral
    • 補給 ほきゅう Listen supply; supplying; replenishment

  • Four-character idioms with 給

    • 自給自足 じきゅうじそく Listen self-sufficiency

  • Tattoo check: 給

    • Verified meaning: salary
    • Official Jōyō kanji — a standard character every Japanese reader recognises
    • Used in real Japanese given names (read たもう)
    • Also carries these associations: to give, sufficient

    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 給

    Surnames 給(たもう)Listen

  • Dictionary Citations

    The meaning above is based on the following sources:

    KANJIDIC2 A comprehensive Japanese-English kanji dictionary

    salary; wage; gift; allow; grant; bestow on

    Unihan Unicode Han Database for CJK characters

    give; by, for

    CC-CEDICT A Chinese-English dictionary

    to; for; for the benefit of; to give; to allow; to do sth (for sb); (grammatical equivalent of 被); (grammatical equivalent of 把); (sentence intensifier)

    Make Me a Hanzi Open-source Chinese character data

    to give, to lend; for, by

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

    Sufficient. Adequate for use. Such as saying 家給人足 (every household is prosperous). | To provide. Such as 供給. Also, serving in running errands is called 給事. An official title was 給事中. In Qin-Han times this was an attendant minister. In Ming-Qing it supervised errors in the Six Ministries. Its position was equal to a censor. Hence called 給諫. Now giving things to people is also called 給. Also the meaning of supplying. | Glib in speech. (Analects) "Fending people off with a glib tongue."

  • Onyomi

    tip

    kyuu(キュウ) キュウ

  • Kunyomi

    tip

    tama.e(たま-え) たま-え

    tama.u(たま-う) たま-う

    tamo.u(たも-う) たも-う

  • Strokes

    tip

    12 strokes

  • Radical

    tip

    糸 (ito・itohen)

  • Related Keywords

    give salary sufficient supply provide allowance compensation wages quick speedy earnings income pay grant adequate enough

Sentences including 給

  • Can't you get by on your salary?

  • He is a highly paid man.

  • I got my pay yesterday.

  • They are paid by the day.

  • She gets a high salary.

  • They saw the waiter coming in a hurry.

  • They supplied the village with water.

  • It is a payday today.

  • The town is supplied with water from the river.

  • We saw the waiter coming through the door.

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