働
(kokuji), work
Readings
On'yomi (音読み)
Kun'yomi (訓読み)
Stroke Order
13 / 13
Information
Grade:4
Strokes:13
JLPT:3
Frequency:417
Vocabulary
ドウ
| Word | Reading | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 自働 | ジドウ | automatic; intransitive verb |
| 労働運動 | ロウドウウンドウ | labour movement; labor movement |
| 労働者 | ロウドウシャ | worker; (manual) laborer; labourer; blue-collar worker |
| 労働省 | ロウドウショウ | Ministry of Labour (now Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare) |
| 労働条件 | ロウドウジョウケン | working conditions |
Other
| Word | Reading | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 共働き | ともばたらき | (husband and wife) both working; dual income |
| 働き | はたらき | work; labor; labour; achievement; performance; ability; talent; salary; income; earnings; action; activity; workings; function; operation; movement; motion; conjugation; inflection |
| 働きかける | はたらきかける | to work on (someone); to appeal to; to make approaches to; to pressure; to exert influence on; to seek action from; to begin to work |
| 働き盛り | はたらきざかり | prime of one's working life |
| 働く | はたらく | to work; to labor; to labour; to function; to operate; to be effective; to work (i.e. ... works); to come into play; to commit (e.g. a crime); to perpetrate; to do; to act; to practise; to practice; to be conjugated |
Visually Similar Kanji
These kanji are easily confused due to similar shapes
動
change, confusion, motion, move, shake, shift
Grade 3JLPT 4
傷
cut, gash, hurt, impair, injure, injury, pain, scar, weak point, wound
Grade 6JLPT 1
衝
brunt, collide, highway, opposition (astronomy), pierce, prick, stab, thrust
Grade 8JLPT 1
重
-fold, esteem, heap up, heavy, important, nest of boxes, pile up, respect
Grade 3JLPT 4
穂
crest (wave), ear, ear (grain), head
Grade 8JLPT 1
勲
merit, meritorious deed
Grade 8JLPT 1
種
class, kind, seed, species, variety
Grade 4JLPT 3
庫
storehouse, warehouse
Grade 3JLPT 2
厘
1/10 bu, 1/10 sen, rin
Grade 8JLPT 1
専
exclusive, mainly, solely, specialty
Grade 6JLPT 2