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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
- —駅使official during the ritsuryō period who was allowed to use the state-provided stables and horses
- —神使messenger of god; divine messenger
- —検使investigator (esp. of an accident or a crime scene); fact-finding envoy; investigating a crime scene or unnatural death (Edo period); investigation; investigator of a crime scene or unnatural death (Edo period); attending as an official witness to a seppuku (Edo period); official witness to a seppuku (Edo period)
- —悪天使evil angels
- —公使館legation
- —使節団mission; delegation
- —使徒書the Epistles (of the New Testament)
- —使徒達the Apostles
- —使命者messenger
- —使用権right to use; (the) use
- —使用方method of use
- —使用法directions; instructions; usage method
- —使用量amount used; quantity consumed; usage
- —使用例example of use; usage example; use example
- —不使用disuse; not using; non-usage
- —奉幣使imperial messenger to a shrine; envoy returning courtesies
- —未使用unused
- —大天使archangel
- —堕天使fallen angel (esp. Lucifer)
- —遣隋使Japan's envoy to Sui dynasty China