Kanji Kaisen

漢字Kanji · in Human Body & People

職: post, employment

Also: work

JLPT N318 strokesGrade 5Your ink: 白 Not met

耳 carries the meaning · 戠 gives the sound

18 strokes

One reading, and the words that use it

ショクshoku · on'yomi · in compounds

  • 職しょくjob
  • 職業しょくぎょうoccupation
  • 職場しょくばworkplace
  • 職務しょくむprofessional duties
  • 職員室しょくいんしつteachers'/faculty room
  • 無職むしょくunemployed [n.]
  • 就職するしゅうしょくするfind employment
  • 退職するたいしょくするretire

Also read ソク, with no example words in our sources. Words: Kanji alive, CC BY 4.0.

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Where it comes from

Origin · sourced

Phono-semantic compound (形聲)耳 ear (meaning) + 戠 (sound)

Source: Wiktionary, 職 (rev. 94593332), CC BY-SA 4.0

Memory story · made up to help you remember

“Ear (耳) + sound/mark (音/戠). Originally related to a person who "listens" to and "marks" official records with extreme care—the definition of a professional post.”
From the 耳 ear story
繋がり
Ink shades, lightest to darkest: 白 Not met, 淡 Met, 中 Learning, 濃 Familiar, 印 Mastered
耳

Also built on ear (耳)

All 9
戠

Also built on 戠

職 takes the 戠 family's reading, ショク (shoku).

Also read ショク

11 kanji share this on'yomi

Also read ソク

13 kanji share this on'yomiAll 13

Easy to confuse

The difference, side by side
職 post · 耳
vs織 weave · 糸
職 has 耳 where 織 has 糸.
In ChineseSimplified 职 · traditional, as in Japanese · zhí

Japan keeps the traditional form 職; mainland China simplifies it to 职.

Simplified
职 mainland China, Singapore
Traditional
職 Taiwan, Hong Kong

Pinyin zhí 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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