Kanji List

駄

• on: ダ, タ
• meaning: burdensome, pack horse, horse load, send by horse
• words:

  Word	Reading	Meaning
  無駄	むだ	futility, uselessness, pointlessness
  無駄遣い	むだづかい	wasting ... on (e.g. money), squandering, waste, frittering away
  駄目	だめ, ダメ	useless, no good, hopeless
  駄菓子	だがし	cheap sweets
  下駄	げた	geta (Japanese footwear), wooden clogs
  無駄にする	むだにする	to render futile, to bring to naught, to waste, to not make good use of
  駄目押し	ダメおし, だめおし	making doubly sure; insurance runs (baseball)
  一駄	いちだ	horse load
  下駄を預ける	げたをあずける	to leave everything to (someone)
  下駄屋	げたや	clog shop