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Work End Finish Contrivance Method Means Resource Finished

Kanji
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
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.".
RTK Index 960

Tags: jlpt.n4, grade3, kanjifreq251-500

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