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
- —ウォーターゲート事件Watergate scandal (1972-1975)
- —仮想移動体通信事業者mobile virtual network operator; MVNO
- —第二種電気通信事業者type II carriers
- —火事と喧嘩は江戸の華fires and fistfights are the flowers of Edo
- —沖縄米兵少女暴行事件1995 Okinawa rape incident; kidnapping and rape of a 12-year-old Japanese girl by three US servicemen stationed in Okinawa
- —秋葉原無差別殺傷事件Akihabara massacre (June 8, 2008)
- —火を見たら火事と思えyou can never be too careful
- —投資事業有限責任組合limited liability investment partnership
- —宅地造成工事規制区域housing land development construction regulated area; zoning area where residential land development is restricted in order to prevent land- and mudslides and requires approval from the prefectural governor
- —国連難民救済事業機関UN Relief and Works Agency
- —情報処理振興事業協会Information-technology Promotion Agency, Japan; IPA
- —屁と火事はもとから騒ぐit is often the originator of problems who kicks up a fuss or complains loudest; the one who smelt it dealt it
- —事実は小説よりも奇なりtruth is stranger than fiction
- —国際連合安全保障理事会United Nations Security Council
- —国際連合経済社会理事会United Nations Economic and Social Council
- —国際原子力事象評価尺度International Nuclear Event Scale; INES
- —ケネディ大統領暗殺事件assassination of US President John F. Kennedy (November 22, 1963); JFK assassination
- —チェルノブイリ原発事故Chernobyl disaster (April, 1986); Chernobyl nuclear power plant accident
- —那覇港湾空港工事事務所Naha Harbour and Airport Construction Office
- —日本国有鉄道清算事業団Japanese National Railways Settlement Corporation; JNR SC