Entry
  1. Noun

    tax paid to avoid forced labor (ritsuryō period); tax in kind

    Historical termsee 力役

  2. mediocrity

    Obsolete term

Also written 力代【ちからしろ】

Pitch on OJAD

Characters in this word

1
Strokes: KanjiVG, CC BY-SA 3.0

commonplace, ordinary, employment

On
ヨウ
Strokes
11
Taught
Junior high
JLPT
N1
Frequency
2038 of 2500
Radical
广 dotted cliff
WaniKani
Level 56

Built from

Used in names as

つねのぶやす

Dictionary and index codes (30)
CodeReference
3-3-8SKIP code
3q8.2The Kanji Dictionary
0022.7Four corner code
553deroo
5eb8Unicode hex code
1-45-39JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
1520Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
1624New Nelson (John Haig)
3128New Japanese-English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
3881Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1998Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
2697Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
1182Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
1266Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
1909A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
1507Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
1302Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
9378Morohashi
1875A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
1696Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
1812Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
1260Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
1428Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
1728Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
594Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
1190Les Kanjis dans la tête (Yves Maniette)
yong1Pinyin reading
yongKorean reading
n1JLPT level (KANJIDIC2)
56WaniKani level