働
Stroke order
Stroke order data from KanjiVG (CC BY-SA 3.0).
Meaning (Japanese)
- はたらく。生産活動に従事する。
- はたらき。機能、作用。
Character meanings and origins come from the Japanese Wiktionary.
Origin of the character
形声。「人」 + 音符「動」。
Character meanings and origins come from the Japanese Wiktionary.
Meaning
work, (kokuji)
English glosses from KANJIDIC2.
Readings
- On (Sino-Japanese)
- ドウElem.
- Kun (native)
- はたら(く)Elem.
- Other languages
- 拼音dong4
- 한글dong
- Hán-ViệtĐộng
Labels show the school stage at which each Jōyō reading is taught.
Basics
- Strokes
- 13 strokes
- Radical
- 人(ひと)
- JIS level
- Level 1
- JLPT (old scale)
- Level 3
- Unicode
U+50CD
Components
Components this kanji is made of. Follow them to find similar kanji.
Composition (IDS): left–right ⿰亻動
Words using this kanji
- 働きはたらき「はたらき」を参照。work, labor, labour, achievement
- 働かせるはたらかせるto put someone to work, to make someone work, to use, to apply
- 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
- 働き盛りはたらきざかりprime of one's working life
- 働き手はたらきてworker, breadwinner, supporter, able person
- 働き者はたらきものhard worker, hardworking person
- 働き口はたらきぐちposition, job, employment, opening
- 働くはたらくはたらく参照。to work, to labor, to labour, to function
- 働かすはたらかすto put someone to work, to make someone work
- 働き人はたらきびとworker, good worker
- 働き蜂はたらきばちworker bee, hard worker
- 働き方はたらきかたwork style, way of working
- 働き振りはたらきぶりway of working, discharge of duty
- 働き中毒はたらきちゅうどくworkaholic
- 働きアリはたらきありworker ant, hard worker
- 働きすぎはたらきすぎoveractivity, overwork
- 働き出すはたらきだすto start working, to take action
- 働き通すはたらきとおすto work straight through without stopping
- 働きづめはたらきづめincessant working, working non-stop
- 働きかけはたらきかけpressure, encouragement, urging, promoting
Words starting with this kanji, most common first.
Similar-looking kanji
Selected automatically by comparing composition (IDS). “Same composition” means the parts and their arrangement match.
Lookup codes
- SKIP
1-2-11- Four Corner
2422.7- Spahn–Hadamitzky
2a11.1- Heisig
- 1809
- Nelson
- 532