Kanji1 / 8
事 kanji
matter, thing, fact, business, reason, possibly
- JLPT level
- N4 (unofficial)
- First appears in
- N5 vocabulary
- Strokes
- 8
- School grade
- Grade 3 (elementary school)
On readings
ジズ
Kun readings
ことつかうつかえる
Variant forms
亊叓Words with 事
LevelWord & meaningActions
- —トンキン湾事件Gulf of Tonkin incident (1964)
- —社会保険事務所social insurance office
- —安全保障理事会(UN) Security Council
- —信託統治理事会Trusteeship Council
- —国際連合事務局United Nations Secretariat
- —違法性阻却事由justifiable cause for noncompliance with the law
- —事務文書用言語Office Document Language
- —長距離電話事業long distance telephone company
- —大事の前の小事don't put the trivial ahead of the important; don't sweat the small stuff; don't bother with the details (before embarking on a great enterprise); read the fine print; be careful of the small things (before embarking on a great enterprise)
- —国際刑事裁判所International Criminal Court; ICC
- —国連安保理事会United Nations Security Council
- —シーメンス事件Siemens scandal (1914)
- —ピッグス湾事件Bay of Pigs Invasion (1961)
- —連邦準備理事会Federal Reserve Board (US); FRB
- —郵政事業民営化postal service privatization
- —カネミ油症事件Kanemi rice oil disease incident (of 1968)
- —松本サリン事件Matsumoto sarin gas attack (June 27-28, 1994)
- —サンキュー事故traffic accident caused by a driver thanking another driver for letting him go first at a junction
- —軍事プレゼンスmilitary presence
- —ロッキード事件Lockheed bribery scandal (uncovered in 1976)