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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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