Kanji1 / 8
使 kanji
use, send on a mission, order, messenger, envoy, ambassador, cause
- JLPT level
- N4 (unofficial)
- First appears in
- N5 vocabulary
- Strokes
- 8
- School grade
- Grade 3 (elementary school)
On readings
シ
Kun readings
つかうつかい-つかい-づかい
Words with 使
LevelWord & meaningActions
- —実力行使Popularuse of force
- —使messenger; police and judicial chief (Heian and Kamakura periods); klesha (polluting thoughts such as greed, hatred and delusion, which result in suffering)
- —軍使truce bearer
- —使臣envoy
- —使丁servant; janitor; messenger
- —使役setting (someone) to work; employment; using; causative
- —使嗾instigation
- —使聘sending a messenger to present gifts
- —上使shogun's envoy; emissary
- —正使senior envoy; chief delegate
- —副使vice-envoy; deputy delegate
- —別使special messenger; another messenger
- —頤使bossing someone around; having a person under one's control
- —使むauxiliary verb indicating the causative voice; auxiliary verb indicating the permissive voice; auxiliary verb strengthening the honorific notion; auxiliary verb strengthening the humble notion
- —勅使imperial envoy; imperial messenger
- —密使secret messenger
- —急使express messenger
- —国使envoy
- —虐使driving someone too hard
- —使令giving orders to someone and making use of him; servant