遣 — kanji meaning “dispatch”
遣
dispatch, despatch, send, give, donate, do, undertake
- Meanings
- dispatch, despatch, send, give, donate, do, undertake
- On'yomi
- ケン (ken)
- Kun'yomi
- つか.う、-つか.い、-づか.い、つか.わす、や.る
- Strokes
- 13
- School grade
- 8
- JLPT (old scale)
- Level 1
- Newspaper frequency
- #664 of 2,500
- Classical radical
- 162
- Chinese reading
- qiǎn — Chinese character page
Words with 遣
| Word | Reading | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 派遣 | はけん haken | dispatch; despatch; deployment |
| 小遣い | こづかい kozukai | pocket money; spending money; pin money |
| 無駄遣い | むだづかい mudazukai | waste (of money, time, etc.); squandering; frittering away |
| 心遣い | こころづかい kokorozukai | consideration (for); thoughtfulness; solicitude |
| 気遣い | きづかい kizukai | consideration; concern; fear |
| 先遣 | せんけん senken | sending ahead |
| 遣唐使 | けんとうし kentoushi | envoy to Tang China |
| 気遣う | きづかう kizukau | to worry about (someone's welfare or comfort); to feel anxious about; to have apprehensions of |
| 遣る | やる yaru | to do; to undertake; to perform |
| 仮名遣い | かなづかい kanazukai | kana orthography; syllabary spelling |
| 息遣い | いきづかい ikizukai | breathing; respiration |
| 言葉遣い | ことばづかい kotobazukai | speech; expression; wording |
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