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奉 kanji
observance, offer, present, dedicate
- JLPT level
- N1 (unofficial)
- First appears in
- N1 vocabulary
- Strokes
- 8
- School grade
- Secondary school
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Kun readings
たてまつるまつるほうずる
Words with 奉
LevelWord & meaningActions
- —勤労奉仕labor service; labour service
- —丁稚奉公apprenticeship
- —お礼奉公free service after one has finished one's apprenticeship
- —滅私奉公selfless devotion
- —奉納相撲ritual matches held at a shrine
- —年季奉公apprenticeship; indentureship; indenture; indentured servitude
- —渡り奉公working as a servant for a series of masters
- —大政奉還restoration of imperial rule
- —社会奉仕voluntary social service
- —版籍奉還return of the land and people from the feudal lords to the Emperor
- —女中奉公domestic service; working as a housemaid; domestic help; domestic helper
- —武家奉公service with a samurai family; serving in a samurai household (as a valet, chambermaid, etc.)
- —奉仕活動voluntary activity; voluntary service; labor of love
- —玉串奉奠reverentially offering a branch of the sacred tree
- —奉仕価格bargain price
- —奉勅命令command sanctioned by the emperor; imperial command
- —奉直戦争Zhili-Fengtian Wars (of China; 1922-1924)
- —奉仕団体service organization; service club; volunteer group
- —奉納試合dedicatory match; ceremonial match
- —命を奉じるto obey orders