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Kanji Detail for 給 - "give, salary, sufficient"
給
- Meaning
給 means "give, salary, sufficient."
Give - To provide; to supply.
Salary - Payment for work.
Sufficient - Enough; adequate.
- 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."
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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.
Sentences from Japanese classical masterpieces
飯になった時、奥さんは傍に坐っている下女を次へ立たせて、自分で給仕の役をつとめた。
from "Kokoro", by Natsume Sōseki, original text:Shueisha Bunko, Shueisha
その郷里の誰彼から、大学を卒業すればいくらぐらい月給が取れるものだろうと聞かれたり、まあ百円ぐらいなものだろうかといわれたりした父は、こういう人々に対して、外聞の悪くないように、卒業したての私を片付けたかったのである。
from "Kokoro", by Natsume Sōseki, original text:Shueisha Bunko, Shueisha
「おれのような人間だって、月給こそ貰っちゃいないが、これでも遊んでばかりいるんじゃない」父はこうもいった」
from "Kokoro", by Natsume Sōseki, original text:Shueisha Bunko, Shueisha
俸給が豊かでなくって、やむをえず素人屋に下宿するくらいの人だからという考えが、それで前かたから奥さんの頭のどこかにはいっていたのでしょう。
from "Kokoro", by Natsume Sōseki, original text:Shueisha Bunko, Shueisha
下女に給仕をしてもらって、私はいつにない不味い飯を済ませました。
from "Kokoro", by Natsume Sōseki, original text:Shueisha Bunko, Shueisha
from "Kokoro", by Natsume Sōseki, original text:Shueisha Bunko, Shueisha
俸給が豊かでなくって、やむをえず素人屋に下宿するくらいの人だからという考えが、それで前かたから奥さんの頭のどこかにはいっていたのでしょう。
from "Kokoro", by Natsume Sōseki, original text:Shueisha Bunko, Shueisha
下女に給仕をしてもらって、私はいつにない不味い飯を済ませました。
from "Kokoro", by Natsume Sōseki, original text:Shueisha Bunko, Shueisha
from "Kokoro", by Natsume Sōseki, original text:Shueisha Bunko, Shueisha