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職 — post, employment, work

しょく職 post

Grade 5 Japanese school grade level in which this kanji is taught. Grade 1 is first year of elementary school. 18 strokes work

U+8077 Unicode hex codepoint — a unique identifier for this character in the Unicode standard. Freq #305 Frequency rank among the ~2,500 most common kanji in Japanese newspapers. Lower number = more common. Heisig #887 Index in James Heisig's "Remembering the Kanji" — a popular textbook that teaches kanji through mnemonics and stories.

Meanings

post
employment
work

word

しょく shoku On'yomi On'yomi (音読み) — the Sino-Japanese reading, derived from Chinese pronunciation. Most commonly used in compound words (jukugo).

職(しょく) shoku occupation 職(しょく) 員(いん) shokuin staff member 職(しょく) 業(ぎょう) shokugyou occupation 職(しょく) 場(ば) shokuba workplace 退(たい) 職(しょく) taishoku retirement 転(てん) 職(しょく) tenshoku job change 職(しょく) 人(にん) shokunin craftsman 職(しょく) 務(む) shokumu professional duty

Appears in idioms

職権乱用四字熟語

post, authority, riot, use

Stroke order

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Stroke data from KanjiVG (CC BY-SA 3.0)

Components

Composed of

みみ耳 ear #128

戠 mark

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.