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事
- kun: こと, つか.う, つか.える
- on: ジ, ズ
- meaning: matter, thing, fact, business, reason, possibly
- words:
| Word | Reading | Meaning |
|---|
| 事 | こと | thing, matter, fact, circumstances, business, reason, experience |
| 幹事 | かんじ | executive secretary, coordinator, organizer, person in charge of making arrangements |
| 記事 | きじ | article, news story, report, account |
| 軍事 | ぐんじ | military affairs |
| 仕事 | しごと | work, job, business, occupation, employment, vocation, task; work |
| 事業 | じぎょう | project, enterprise, business, industry, operations |
| 事件 | じけん | event, affair, incident, case, plot, trouble, scandal |
| 事故 | じこ | accident, incident, trouble; circumstances, reasons |
| 事実 | じじつ | fact, truth, reality |
| 事情 | じじょう | circumstances, consideration, conditions, situation, reasons |
発
- kun: た.つ, あば.く, おこ.る, つか.わす, はな.つ
- on: ハツ, ホツ
- meaning: discharge, departure, publish, emit, start from, disclose, counter for gunshots
- words:
| Word | Reading | Meaning |
|---|
| 発 | はつ | departure, departing (from ...), departing (at time ...); beginning; issued by (e.g. document); counter for gunshots, counter for blows (punches) |
| 開発 | かいはつ | development, exploitation |
| 発言 | はつげん | utterance, speech, proposal |
| 発行 | はっこう | issue (publications), publishing; raising an event (software) |
| 発展 | はってん | development, growth |
| 発表 | はっぴょう | announcement, publication |
| 反発 | はんぱつ | to repel, to oppose, to revolt, to react sharply (against); opposition, rebellion, resistance, backlash; rally, recovery (e.g. in stock prices), rebound; to rally, to recover, to rebound |
| 活発 | かっぱつ | vigor, vigour, active, lively |
| 原発 | げんぱつ | nuclear power plant, nuclear power supply |
| 先発 | せんぱつ | forerunner, advance party, going on ahead; being in a (team sports) match or game from the start, starting |
者
- kun: もの
- on: シャ
- meaning: someone, person
- words:
| Word | Reading | Meaning |
|---|
| 患者 | かんじゃ | (a) patient |
| 関係者 | かんけいしゃ | authorized people, authorised people, person(s) concerned |
| 記者 | きしゃ | reporter |
| 業者 | ぎょうしゃ | trader, merchant |
| 容疑者 | ようぎしゃ | suspect (person) |
| 若者 | わかもの | young man, youth, lad |
| 消費者 | しょうひしゃ | consumer |
| 労働者 | ろうどうしゃ | laborer (labourer), blue-collar worker |
| 学者 | がくしゃ | scholar |
| 経営者 | けいえいしゃ | manager, proprietor |
業
- kun: わざ
- on: ギョウ, ゴウ
- meaning: business, vocation, arts, performance
- words:
| Word | Reading | Meaning |
|---|
| 業 | ごう | karma (i.e. actions committed in a former life) |
| 企業 | きぎょう | enterprise, undertaking, corporation, business |
| 業界 | ぎょうかい | industry, business |
| 業者 | ぎょうしゃ | trader, merchant |
| 作業 | さぎょう | work, operation, manufacturing, fatigue duty |
| 産業 | さんぎょう | industry |
| 事業 | じぎょう | project, enterprise, business, industry, operations |
| 農業 | のうぎょう | agriculture |
| 営業 | えいぎょう | business, trade, sales, operations |
| 業務 | ぎょうむ | business, affairs, duties, work, procedure, task, action, function |
員
- on: イン
- meaning: employee, member, number, the one in charge
- words:
| Word | Reading | Meaning |
|---|
| 委員 | いいん | committee member |
| 委員会 | いいんかい | committee, commission, board, panel, committee meeting |
| 委員長 | いいんちょう | committee chairman |
| 会員 | かいいん | member, the membership |
| 議員 | ぎいん | member of the Diet, congress or parliament |
| 職員 | しょくいん | staff member, personnel |
| 国会議員 | こっかいぎいん | member of National Diet, Diet member |
| 社員 | しゃいん | company employee; company stockholders (esp. in legal contexts), members of a corporation |
| 全員 | ぜんいん | all members (unanimity), all hands, the whole crew, everyone, everybody |
| 役員 | やくいん | officer, official, executive, staff |
開
- kun: ひら.く, ひら.き, -びら.き, ひら.ける, あ.く, あ.ける
- on: カイ
- meaning: open, unfold, unseal
- words:
| Word | Reading | Meaning |
|---|
| 開発 | かいはつ | development, exploitation |
| 開催 | かいさい | holding a meeting, open an exhibition |
| 開始 | かいし | start, commencement, beginning, initiation |
| 開放 | かいほう | open, throw open, liberalization, liberalisation |
| 公開 | こうかい | open to the public |
| 展開 | てんかい | development; expansion (opposite of compression) |
| 開幕 | かいまく | raising the curtain |
| 再開 | さいかい | reopening, resumption, restarting |
| 開き | ひらき | opening, gap; dried and opened fish |
| 開会 | かいかい | opening of a meeting |
問
- kun: と.う, と.い, とん
- on: モン
- meaning: question, ask, problem
- words:
| Word | Reading | Meaning |
|---|
| 問う | とう | to ask, to question, to inquire; to charge (i.e. with a crime), to accuse; to care (about); without regard to (with negative verb) |
| 問 | もん | counter for questions |
| 質問 | しつもん | question, inquiry, enquiry |
| 訪問 | ほうもん | call, visit |
| 問題 | もんだい | problem, question |
| 問い合わせ | といあわせ | enquiry, inquiry, ENQ, query, interrogation |
| 喚問 | かんもん | summons |
| 疑問 | ぎもん | question, problem, doubt, guess |
| 顧問 | こもん | adviser, advisor, consultant |
| 問い | とい | question, query |
代
- kun: か.わる, かわ.る, かわ.り, -がわ.り, か.える, よ, しろ
- on: ダイ, タイ
- meaning: substitute, change, convert, replace, period, age, counter for decades of ages, eras, etc., generation, charge, rate, fee
- words:
| Word | Reading | Meaning |
|---|
| 代わり | かわり, がわり | substitute, deputy, proxy, alternate, relief, compensation, second helping; in place of, as a substitute for |
| 時代 | じだい | period, epoch, era, age; the times, those days; oldness, ancientness, antiquity; antique, period piece |
| 代表 | だいひょう | representative, representation, delegation, type, example, model |
| 現代 | げんだい | nowadays, modern era, modern times, present-day |
| 世代 | せだい | generation, the world, the age |
| 近代 | きんだい | present day, modern times |
| 代理 | だいり | representation, agency, proxy, deputy, agent, attorney, substitute, alternate, acting (principal, etc.) |
| 交代 | こうたい | alternation, change, relief, relay, shift, substitution (sports, etc.) |
| 代議 | だいぎ | representing others in a conference |
| 代行 | だいこう | acting as agent |
動
- kun: うご.く, うご.かす
- on: ドウ
- meaning: move, motion, change, confusion, shift, shake
- words:
| Word | Reading | Meaning |
|---|
| 動 | どう | motion, change, confusion |
| 動き | うごき | movement, activity, trend, development, change |
| 運動 | うんどう | motion, exercise |
| 活動 | かつどう | action, activity |
| 行動 | こうどう | action, conduct, behaviour, behavior, mobilization, mobilisation |
| 自動車 | じどうしゃ | automobile |
| 動物 | どうぶつ | animal |
| 不動産 | ふどうさん | real estate |
| 動向 | どうこう | trend, tendency, movement, attitude |
| 移動 | いどう | removal, migration, movement; mobile (e.g. communications) |
主
- kun: ぬし, おも, あるじ
- on: シュ, ス, シュウ
- meaning: lord, chief, master, main thing, principal
- words:
| Word | Reading | Meaning |
|---|
| 主に | おもに | mainly, primarily |
| 喪主 | もしゅ | chief mourner |
| 民主 | みんしゅ | democracy, popular sovereignty; democratic |
| 主義 | しゅぎ | doctrine, rule, principle |
| 主催 | しゅさい | organization, organisation, sponsorship |
| 主席 | しゅせき | head, chief; chairman, governor, president; top student, head of the class; top seat, first desk (in orchestra) |
| 主張 | しゅちょう | claim, request, insistence, assertion, advocacy, emphasis, contention, opinion, tenet |
| 主婦 | しゅふ | housewife, mistress (of the house), homemaker |
| 主要 | しゅよう | chief, main, principal, major |
| 朝鮮民主主義人民共和国 | ちょうせんみんしゅしゅぎじんみんきょうわこく | Democratic People's Republic of Korea (North Korea), DPRK |
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