Kanji1 / 9
為 kanji
do, change, make, benefit, welfare, be of use, reach to, try, practice, cost, serve as, good, advantage, as a result of
- JLPT level
- N1 (unofficial)
- First appears in
- N4 vocabulary
- Strokes
- 9
- School grade
- Secondary school
On readings
イ
Kun readings
ためなるなすするたりつくるなり
Variant forms
爲Words with 為
LevelWord & meaningActions
- —商行為commercial transaction
- —性行為sexual act; sexual intercourse
- —無作為random; unintentional; unintended
- —不作為forbearance; omission; nonfeasance; inaction
- —作為的intentional; deliberate; contrived; artificial
- —作為犯crime of commission
- —行為者doer; performer (of a deed); perpetrator
- —所為かit may be because
- —為公会Iko-kai (faction of the LDP)
- —乾為天qian (hexagram 1 of the I Ching: heaven, the creative)
- —坤為地kun (hexagram 2 of the I Ching: earth, the receptive)
- —坎為水kan (hexagram 29 of the I Ching: water, the abysmal)
- —離為火li (hexagram 30 of the I Ching: fire, the clinging)
- —震為雷zhen (hexagram 51 of the I Ching: thunder, the arousing)
- —艮為山gen (hexagram 52 of the I Ching: mountain, keeping still)
- —巽為風xun (hexagram 57 of the I Ching: wind, the gentle)
- —兌為沢dui (hexagram 58 of the I Ching: lake, the joyous)
- —少壮有為energetic
- —衝動行為shock action
- —人為淘汰artificial selection