漢字Kanji · in Human Body & People
仕: attend, doing
Also: official, serve
JLPT N45 strokesGrade 3Your ink: 白 Not met
亻 carries the meaning · 士 gives the sound
5 strokes
Three readings, and the words that use each
シshi · on'yomi · in compounds
- 仕方しかたway, method
- 仕事しごとwork
- 仕方がないしかたがないit can't be helped
- 仕組みしくみstructure
- 仕上げるしあげるfinish up
- 仕返しするしかえしするrevenge
- 仕送りするしおくりするremit
ジji · on'yomi
- 給仕きゅうじwaiter
つかえるtsukaeru · kun'yomi · on its own
- 仕えるつかえるserve [v.i.]
- 宮仕えみやづかえcourt service
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成り立ち
Where it comes from
Origin · sourced
Phono-semantic compound (形聲)人 person, as ⺅ (meaning) + 士 a person engaged in an official position (sound)
It is mainly used as a verb meaning "to serve.".
Source: Wiktionary, 仕 (rev. 93764478), CC BY-SA 4.0
Memory story · made up to help you remember
“See the person standing tall, ready to interact with the world! When this radical appears on the left, it signals that the kanji describes a human quality, a social relationship, or an action that people perform.”
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Connections
Ink shades, lightest to darkest: 白 Not met, 淡 Met, 中 Learning, 濃 Familiar, 印 Mastered
仕 takes the 士 family's reading, シ (shi).
Easy to confuse
The difference, side by side仕 attend · 士
vs任 responsibility · 壬In ChineseSame character in simplified and traditional · shì
Same form: 仕 is written the same way in mainland China (simplified) and in Taiwan and Hong Kong (traditional).
- Simplified
- 仕 mainland China, Singapore
- Traditional
- 仕 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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