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
- —十二使徒Twelve Apostles
- —全権公使minister plenipotentiary
- —全権大使ambassador plenipotentiary
- —代理公使chargé d'affaires; chargé
- —代理大使charge d'affaires of embassy
- —大使公邸ambassador's residence
- —武力行使use of (military) force
- —公使館員legation; attache
- —労使協調labor-management cooperation; labour-management cooperation
- —金の使途how money is used
- —駐日大使ambassador to Japan
- —検非違使police and judicial chief (Heian and Kamakura periods)
- —労使紛争industrial (labor-management) dispute (labour); industrial strife
- —移動大使roving ambassador
- —外交使節diplomat
- —薬物使用drug use
- —労使交渉labor-management negotiation; labour-management negotiation
- —使命意識sense of (one's) mission; awareness of one's duty (calling)
- —労使双方both labor and management; both the workers and the employers
- —使用頻度frequency of use