Kanji Kaisen

漢字Kanji · in Tools & Weapons

事: matter, thing

Also: fact, business, reason, possibly

JLPT N48 strokesGrade 3Your ink: 白 Not met

亅 carries the meaning · 口 and ⺕ are drawn in

8 strokes
  • Bronze · Shang
  • Today

Bronze: Wikimedia Commons, traced from Academia Sinica, CC0. Today’s form: KanjiVG, CC BY-SA 3.0.

Three readings, and the words that use each

ジji · on'yomi · in compounds

  • 事故じこaccident
  • 食事しょくじmeal
  • 用事ようじbusiness, engagement
  • 火事かじfire
  • 返事へんじreply
  • 工事中こうじちゅうunder construction
  • 大事なだいじなimportant, valuable
  • お大事におだいじにtake care (to a sick person)

ズzu · on'yomi

  • 好事家こうずかdilettante

ことkoto · kun'yomi · on its own

  • 事こと(abstract) thing
  • 仕事しごとwork

Also read つかう, つかえる, with no example words in our sources. Words: Kanji alive, CC BY 4.0.

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Where it comes from

Origin · sourced

Ideogrammic compound (會意)又 hand + 中 a flagpole with a drum

Source: Wiktionary, 事 (rev. 93386088), CC BY-SA 4.0

Memory story · made up to help you remember

“Originally contained the hook to represent a person carrying a tool or an official "hooked" record of the matters and things that have occurred.”
From the 亅 vertical stroke with a hook story
繋がり
Ink shades, lightest to darkest: 白 Not met, 淡 Met, 中 Learning, 濃 Familiar, 印 Mastered
口

Also built on mouth (口)

All 108
⺕

Also built on ⺕

15 in all
亅

Also built on vertical stroke with a hook (亅)

All 6

Also read ジ

27 kanji share this on'yomiAll 27

Also read ズ

6 kanji share this on'yomi

Easy to confuse

The difference, side by side
事 matter · 亅
vs唐 T'ang · 广
事 has 亅 where 唐 has 广.
In ChineseSame character in simplified and traditional · shì

Same form: 事 is written the same way in mainland China (simplified) and in Taiwan and Hong Kong (traditional).

Simplified
事 mainland China, Singapore
Traditional
事 Taiwan, Hong Kong

Pinyin shì most common reading

Forms and pinyin: Unicode Unihan database (Unicode License v3). Pinyin lists the most common reading, not every reading.

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