Onyomi: シ, ジ · Kunyomi: つか.える · Meanings: attend, doing, official, serve
Kanji for attend, doing, official, serve
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The kanji 仕 combines the “person” radical (亻) with the character for “to serve” or “work” (士), symbolizing a person performing duties or serving others. In ancient times, it represented someone carrying out responsibilities with care. 仕 came to mean “to serve,” “to do,” or “work,” capturing effort, duty, and service.
A person carrying out tasks — 仕 means to serve, work, or perform duties.
Imagine a person helping or working diligently — that’s 仕, the kanji for serving and working.
| Word | Reading | Meaning | Meta |
|---|---|---|---|
| 仕 | し | official, civil service | Noun |
| 仕事 | しごと | work, job, labor, labour, business, task, assignment, occupation, employment | common JLPT-N5 Noun, Suru verb, Intransitive verb |
| 試合 | しあい | match, game, bout, contest | common JLPT-N4 Noun, Suru verb, Intransitive verb |
| 仕方 | しかた | way, method, means, resource, course | common JLPT-N4 Noun |
| 仕様 | しよう | way, method, means, resource, remedy | common JLPT-N1 Noun |
| 幸せ | しあわせ | happiness, good fortune, luck, blessing | common JLPT-N3 Noun, Na-adjective (keiyodoshi) |
| 支度 | したく | preparation, arrangements | common JLPT-N3 Noun, Suru verb, Transitive verb |
| 仕舞う | しまう | to finish, to stop, to end, to put an end to, to bring to a close | common JLPT-N3 JLPT-N1 Godan verb with 'u' ending, Transitive verb |
| 仕舞った | しまった | darn it!, darn!, oops!, oh dear!, oh no! | common JLPT-N3 JLPT-N1 |
| 仕組み | しくみ | structure, construction, arrangement, contrivance, mechanism, workings | common JLPT-N1 Noun |