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仕 つか.える 仕事(しごと): (1) work; job; business; occupation; employment; vocation; task (2) work仕組み(しくみ): (1) structure; construction; arrangement; contrivance (2) plan; plot; contrivance仕方(しかた): way; method; means; resource; course奉仕(ほうし): attendance; service; ministry; church work仕上げ(しあげ): end; finishing touches; being finished仕掛け(しかけ): device; contrivance; trick; mechanism; gadget; (small) scale; half finished; commencement; set up; challenge; attack仕様(しよう): (1) way; method; means; resource; remedy (2) (technical) specification仕上がり(しあがり): finish; end; completion仕入れる(しいれる): to lay in stock; to replenish stock; to procure; to learn something that might be useful later仕掛ける(しかける): to commence; to lay (mines); to set (traps); to wage (war); to challenge仕方がない(しかたがない): it can't be helped; it's inevitable; it's no use; can't stand it; being impatient; being annoyed仕上げる(しあげる): to finish up; to complete仕立てる(したてる): to tailor; to make; to prepare; to train; to send (a messenger)仕舞う(しまう): to finish; to close; to do something completely; to put away; to put an end to仕切る(しきる): (1) to partition; to divide; to mark off; to itemize (2) to direct; to take control; to manage; to take responsibility (3) to settle accounts (4) to toe the mark仕える(つかえる): to serve; to work for; to attend給仕(きゅうじ): (1) waiting on a table; serving (at dinner) (2) waiter; waitress; waitperson; server; cabin boy; bellboy; page; pageboy (3) office boy; office girl仕上がる(しあがる): to be finished; to be completed; to be done仕様が無い(しようがない): it can't be helped; it is inevitable; nothing can be done仕来たり(しきたり): custom; conventional practice; conventional practise; mores; ordinance仕舞い(しまい): (1) end; close; finish; termination (2) noh dance in plain clothes 3 人: person士: gentleman; samurai; samurai radical (no. 33) 人 2 (none) attend [+fuaburisu] Mr T attends to Tom Cruise in the Last Samurai, who is doing hara-kiri. Imagine Tom Cruise outside in the final scene, stabbing his knife into his stomach, while Mr T looks patiently on. "I pity da foo....no, really.".

Accepted Answer

シ、ジ attend, doing, official, serve 4 439 5 9 ひと・にんべん・ひとやね 形声 Phonetic Back in the day, a person who stands beside a samurai is usually attending to them or working for them.

Kanji	仕
Onyomi	シ、ジ
Kunyomi	つか.える
English	attend, doing, official, serve
Examples	仕事(しごと): (1) work; job; business; occupation; employment; vocation; task (2) work 仕組み(しくみ): (1) structure; construction; arrangement; contrivance (2) plan; plot; contrivance 仕方(しかた): way; method; means; resource; course 奉仕(ほうし): attendance; service; ministry; church work 仕上げ(しあげ): end; finishing touches; being finished 仕掛け(しかけ): device; contrivance; trick; mechanism; gadget; (small) scale; half finished; commencement; set up; challenge; attack 仕様(しよう): (1) way; method; means; resource; remedy (2) (technical) specification 仕上がり(しあがり): finish; end; completion 仕入れる(しいれる): to lay in stock; to replenish stock; to procure; to learn something that might be useful later 仕掛ける(しかける): to commence; to lay (mines); to set (traps); to wage (war); to challenge 仕方がない(しかたがない): it can't be helped; it's inevitable; it's no use; can't stand it; being impatient; being annoyed 仕上げる(しあげる): to finish up; to complete 仕立てる(したてる): to tailor; to make; to prepare; to train; to send (a messenger) 仕舞う(しまう): to finish; to close; to do something completely; to put away; to put an end to 仕切る(しきる): (1) to partition; to divide; to mark off; to itemize (2) to direct; to take control; to manage; to take responsibility (3) to settle accounts (4) to toe the mark 仕える(つかえる): to serve; to work for; to attend 給仕(きゅうじ): (1) waiting on a table; serving (at dinner) (2) waiter; waitress; waitperson; server; cabin boy; bellboy; page; pageboy (3) office boy; office girl 仕上がる(しあがる): to be finished; to be completed; to be done 仕様が無い(しようがない): it can't be helped; it is inevitable; nothing can be done 仕来たり(しきたり): custom; conventional practice; conventional practise; mores; ordinance 仕舞い(しまい): (1) end; close; finish; termination (2) noh dance in plain clothes
JLPT Level	4
Jouyou Grade	3
Frequency	439
Components	人: person 士: gentleman; samurai; samurai radical (no. 33)
Number of Strokes	5
Kanji Radical	人
Radical Number	9
Radical Strokes	2
Radical Reading	ひと・にんべん・ひとやね
Traditional Form	(none)
Classification	形声 Phonetic
Keyword	attend
Koohii Story 1	Back in the day, a person who stands beside a samurai is usually attending to them or working for them.
Koohii Story 2	[+fuaburisu] Mr T attends to Tom Cruise in the Last Samurai, who is doing hara-kiri. Imagine Tom Cruise outside in the final scene, stabbing his knife into his stomach, while Mr T looks patiently on. "I pity da foo....no, really.".

Work End Finish Contrivance Method Means Resource Finished