Kanji | 遣 |
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Onyomi | ケン |
Kunyomi | つか.う、-つか.い、-づか.い、つか.わす、や.る |
English | dispatch, send, give, donate, do, undertake |
Examples | 派遣(はけん): dispatch; despatch; deployment 小遣い(こづかい): pocket money; spending money; pin money; allowance 無駄遣い(むだづかい): wasting ... on (e.g. money); squandering; waste; frittering away 言葉遣い(ことばづかい): speech; expression; wording; language 仮名遣い(かなづかい): kana orthography; syllabary spelling 遣る(やる): (1) to send; to dispatch; to despatch (2) to put; to move; to turn (one's head, glance, etc.) (3) to give (esp. to someone of equal or lower status); to let have; to present; to bestow; to confer (4) to make (a vehicle) go faster (5) to do; to undertake; to perform; to play (a game); to study (6) to run (a business); to keep; to be engaged in; to practice (law, medicine, etc.); to practise (7) to have (food, drink, etc.); to eat; to drink; to smoke (8) to hold (a performance); to perform; to show (9) to ease (one's mind) (10) to harm; to injure; to kill (11) to have sex with (12) to live; to get by; to get along (13) to do ... completely (14) to do ... broadly; to do ... to a great distance (15) to do ... for (someone of equal or lower status); to do ... to (sometimes with negative nuance) (16) to make active efforts to ... 遣り遂げる(やりとげる): to accomplish 遣り通す(やりとおす): to carry through; to achieve; to complete |
JLPT Level | 1 |
Jouyou Grade | S |
Frequency | 664 |
Components | 中: in; inside; middle; mean; center 辶: walk; walking; road radical variant (no. 162) |
Number of Strokes | 13 |
Kanji Radical | 辵 |
Radical Number | 162 |
Radical Strokes | 7 |
Radical Reading | しんにょう・しんにゅう |
Traditional Form | (none) |
Classification | 形声 Phonetic |
Keyword | dispatch |
Koohii Story 1 | Bond has stolen a lady spy's purse while she was asleep after their evening together. When she discovers it's gone, she dispatches some henchmen on the road after him to dispatch him, but Bond evades them and escapes with the purse. |
Koohii Story 2 | Apart from meaning DISPATCH, this kanji can mean "to give (to someone lower than you)," "to do," and to even "have intercourse." STORY: The MAESTRO is on the ROAD waiting for a pimp to DISPATCH some new ladies (lower than him) so that he can GIVE THEM money from his PURSE and then DO IT with them. Where is the MAESTRO´S baton? You don´t wanna know... |
Tags: jlpt.n1, grades, kanjifreq501-750
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