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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
- —色画用紙colored drawing paper; construction paper
- —孵化用卵hatching egg
- —長期使用long-term use (e.g. of a drug); prolonged use; long-time service
- —共同使用joint use; communal use
- —社会信用social credit system (China); social credit
- —臨時雇用temporary employment
- —時事用語contemporary words; current terminology; words commonly heard in current affairs topics
- —国家作用state action; national action
- —汎用ＡＩartificial general intelligence; AGI
- —使用不可unavailable; disabled
- —有効利用effective utilization; efficient use
- —特用作物industrial crop; nonfood crop
- —用途多彩versatile; multi-purpose
- —対人信用personal credit
- —対物信用collateral credit; credit in respect to real property
- —有害作用adverse effect; untoward effect; adverse drug reaction; ADR
- —接触作用contact catalysis
- —三段活用trigrade conjugation (of the classical verbs "su" and "ku"); conjugation in which the stem vowel alternates between "i", "u" and "o"
- —利尿作用diuretic effect
- —無用の用usefulness for the (seemingly) useless