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用 kanji
utilize, business, service, use, employ
- JLPT level
- N4 (unofficial)
- First appears in
- N4 vocabulary
- Strokes
- 5
- School grade
- Grade 2 (elementary school)
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On readings
ヨウ
Kun readings
もちいる
Words with 用
LevelWord & meaningActions
- —公用物public property
- —飲用水potable water
- —雇用主employer
- —用水池reservoir
- —用水路irrigation channel; irrigation ditch; irrigation canal; flume
- —用向きbusiness; errand; nature of one's business
- —用益権a usufructuary right
- —用済みhaving served one's purpose; being finished (with); business settled
- —用無しunnecessary; unneeded; useless; unwanted; having nothing to do; unoccupied; idle
- —用器画mechanical drawing
- —逆作用reaction; adverse effect
- —御用達purveyor (to the Imperial Household, etc.); company (or restaurant, place, etc.) that caters to or is popular with a specific clientele
- —土用波high waves which rise during the dog days of summer
- —専用車private car; personal car
- —専用機personal aeroplane; personal airplane
- —実用品article for everyday use; domestic article
- —野暮用minor business
- —節用集Setsuyōshū (Muromachi-era Japanese dictionary)
- —活用形inflected word form (one of the six bases in Japanese)
- —活用語inflecting word (in Japanese); inflectional word