漢字Kanji · in Action & Movement
就: concerning, settle
Also: take position, depart, study, per
- 京capital(form)
- 尤(form)
京 and 尤 are drawn in
Oracle bone · Shang Bronze · Western Zhou Today
Oracle bone: Wikimedia Commons, public domain. Bronze: Wikimedia Commons, traced from Academia Sinica, CC0. Today’s form: KanjiVG, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Four readings, and the words that use each
シュウshuu · on'yomi · in compounds
- 就業時間しゅうぎょうじかんworking hours
- 就職するしゅうしょくするfind employment
- 就任するしゅうにんするassume office, be inaugurated
- 就航するしゅうこうするgo into operation (ship, plane)
- 就学するしゅうがくするenter school, attend school
- 就労するしゅうろうするgo to work, be at work
ジュju · on'yomi
- 成就するじょうじゅするrealize, complete
つくtsuku · kun'yomi · on its own
- 就くつくtake (a job) [v.i.]
つけるtsukeru · kun'yomi
- 就けるつけるput, place [v.t.]
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Where it comes from
Origin · sourced
Ideogrammic compound (會意)享 + 京
Originally 𫢁, ideogrammic compound (會意): 享 + 京, a temple and a tower – meaning "to sacrifice at a high place". During the Warring States period, 享 was omitted.
Source: Wiktionary, 就 (rev. 94507734), CC BY-SA 4.0
Memory story · made up to help you remember
“Lame leg (尢) + capital (京). It originally meant to "settle" or "take a stance" in a high place (the capital), even if the journey there was difficult or the footing was uneven.”
Connections
Also built on capital (京)
Also built on 尤
Also read ジュ
12 kanji share this on'yomiEasy to confuse
The difference, side by sideIn ChineseSame character in simplified and traditional · jiù
Same form: 就 is written the same way in mainland China (simplified) and in Taiwan and Hong Kong (traditional).
- Simplified
- 就 mainland China, Singapore
- Traditional
- 就 Taiwan, Hong Kong
Pinyin jiù most common reading
Forms and pinyin: Unicode Unihan database (Unicode License v3). Pinyin lists the most common reading, not every reading.