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使

JLPT N4 SL3 8 strokes Frequency: #219

Meanings

Use, Send On A Mission, Order, Messenger, Envoy, Ambassador, Cause

Radicals

亻

Decomposition

⿰亻吏

Etymology

Ideographic: A person 亻 working for the government 吏

Writing Practice

Stroke 0 / 8

Stroke Order

1 diagonal top-right-to-bottom-left

2 vertical top-to-bottom

3 horizontal bottom-right-to-top-left

4 vertical bottom-right-to-top-left

5 corner bottom-right-to-top-left

6 horizontal bottom-right-to-top-left

7 diagonal top-to-bottom

8 diagonal bottom-right-to-top-left

On'yomi (Chinese reading)

シ shi

Kun'yomi (Japanese reading)

つか tsuka

Words Using This Kanji

304 words total

Other (20 words)

使用料しようりょう

use fee

使いつかい

errand

使い慣らすつかいならす

to accustom oneself to using

使い残りつかいのこり

remnant

使い先つかいさき

the place where one is sent on an errand

to use properly

use

envoy

Acts of the Apostles (book of the Bible)

Apostles' Creed

envoy

right to use

how to use (something)

to use up

to embezzle

to use up

useful thing

how to use

to dispatch a messenger

軍使ぐんし

truce bearer

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