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事 — thing, matter, fact

こと事 thing

Grade 3 Japanese school grade level in which this kanji is taught. Grade 1 is first year of elementary school. 8 strokes work

U+4E8B Unicode hex codepoint — a unique identifier for this character in the Unicode standard. Freq #18 Frequency rank among the ~2,500 most common kanji in Japanese newspapers. Lower number = more common. Heisig #1240 Index in James Heisig's "Remembering the Kanji" — a popular textbook that teaches kanji through mnemonics and stories.

Meanings

thing
matter
fact
business
reason
possibly

word

こと・ごと koto Kun'yomi Kun'yomi (訓読み) — the native Japanese reading of this kanji. Used when the kanji appears alone or with okurigana (trailing hiragana).

事(こと) koto thing 仕(し) 事(ごと) shigoto work 出(で) 来(き) 事(ごと) dekigoto event 見(み) 事(ごと) migoto splendid 物(もの) 事(ごと) monogoto things 何(なに) 事(ごと) nanigoto what 仕(し) 事(ごと) 場(ば) shigotoba workplace 事(こと) 柄(がら) kotogara matter

し・じ shi On'yomi On'yomi (音読み) — the Sino-Japanese reading, derived from Chinese pronunciation. Most commonly used in compound words (jukugo).

記(き) 事(じ) kiji article 事(じ) 業(ぎょう) jigyou business 事(じ) 実(じつ) jijitsu fact 大(だい) 事(じ) daiji important 理(り) 事(じ) riji director 工(こう) 事(じ) kouji construction 返(へん) 事(じ) henji reply 事(じ) 前(ぜん) jizen prior

Jukujikun Jukujikun Jukujikun (熟字訓) — special readings where the pronunciation applies to the whole compound word rather than individual kanji. The reading cannot be split per character.

他人事(ひとごと) hitogoto other people's affair

Appears in idioms

多事多難四字熟語

many, thing, many, difficult

事実無根四字熟語

thing, truth, nothingness, root

Stroke order

1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8

Stroke data from KanjiVG (CC BY-SA 3.0)

Components

Composed of

くち口 mouth #30

彐 snout

亅 hook

Kangxi Radical The Kangxi radicals are a set of 214 character components standardized in the 1716 Kangxi Dictionary. Every kanji is classified under one radical, used for dictionary lookup and character organization.