EntryCommon
  1. Ichidan verb, Transitive verb

    to put someone to work; to make someone work

    see 働かす

    課長は私を奴隷のように働かせた。
    The section chief made me work like a slave.
  2. to use; to apply; to exert; to exercise (restraint, one's imagination, one's brain, etc.)

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Characters in this word

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Strokes: KanjiVG, CC BY-SA 3.0

work, (kokuji)

Kun
はたら.く
On
ドウ
Strokes
13
Taught
Grade 4
JLPT
N3
Frequency
417 of 2500
Radical
person
WaniKani
Level 11

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Dictionary and index codes (33)
CodeReference
1-2-11SKIP code
2a11.1The Kanji Dictionary
2422.7Four corner code
2145deroo
50cdUnicode hex code
1-38-15JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
532Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
297New Nelson (John Haig)
153New Japanese-English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
172Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
113Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
130Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
1678Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
1809Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
444A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
170Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
1079Morohashi
558A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
232Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
232Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
488sakade
120Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
585henshall3
612Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
137crowley
192Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
3.15busy_people
132Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
1694Les Kanjis dans la tête (Yves Maniette)
dong4Pinyin reading
dongKorean reading
n3JLPT level (KANJIDIC2)
11WaniKani level