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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
- —使命感sense of duty; sense of purpose; vocation
- —使用中in use; occupied (e.g. toilet); engaged
- —再使用reuse
- —使用率utilization rate; usage rate; occupancy rate
- —使用時when using
- —使君子Rangoon creeper (Quisqualis indica)
- —使用域register
- —巡見使traveling inspectors sent by the Shogun in the Edo period
- —誤使用improper use; wrong use; misuse; mishandling; abuse
- —勅使門imperial envoy gate; temple gate used by imperial envoy
- —使用前before use
- —使用後after use
- —熾天使seraph
- —節度使jiedushi (regional military governor in ancient China)
- —冊封使accredited Chinese envoy to neighbouring kingdoms
- —謝恩使Ryukyuan mission to Edo upon the change of the Ryukyuan King
- —慶賀使Ryukyuan mission to Edo upon the change of the shogun
- —開拓使early-Meiji administrative unit for Hokkaido (1869-1882)
- —使役犬working dog
- —通信使Korean delegation to Japan (Edo period)