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Dictionary: “事”

事

こと

thing; matter

Example sentence

"What does U.F.O. stand for?" "It means Unidentified Flying Object, I guess."

Kanji details

Kun/On information

事
On
じ;ず
Kun
こと;つか.う;つか.える
Stroke count
8

・matter

・thing

・fact

・business

・reason

・possibly

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Related words to 事

49 related words

事実無根

じじつむこん

→

groundless;entirely contrary to fact

事務局

じむきょく

→

secretariat;executive office

事情

じじょう

→

circumstances;conditions;situation;reasons;state of affairs

事実上

じじつじょう

→

as a matter of fact;actually;effectively;in reality;in effect

事務員

じむいん

→

clerk;office worker;office staff

事務所

じむしょ

→

office

事柄

ことがら

→

matter;thing;affair;circumstance

事象

じしょう

→

event;phenomenon;matter

事務的

じむてき

→

administrative;businesslike;practical

事変

じへん

→

accident;disaster;incident;uprising;emergency

事故

じこ

→

accident;incident;trouble

事実

じじつ

→

fact;truth;reality

事務次官

じむじかん

→

permanent vice-president;undersecretary;vice-minister

事前

じぜん

→

prior;beforehand;in advance;before the fact;ex ante

事態

じたい

→

situation;(present) state of affairs;circumstances

事務当局

じむとうきょく

→

officials in charge

事務室

じむしつ

→

office (room)

事件

じけん

→

event;affair;incident;case;plot;trouble;scandal

事務

じむ

→

office work;clerical work;administration;business;affairs

事項

じこう

→

matter;item;facts

事務官

じむかん

→

administrative official;secretary;commissioner

事後

じご

→

after;post;ex-;after the fact;ex post

事例

じれい

→

example;precedent;case

事業所

じぎょうしょ

→

establishment;place of business;business site;office;(production) facility

事業

じぎょう

→

business;enterprise;venture;(commercial) activity;(business) operation;industry

事由

じゆう

→

reason;cause;whys and wherefores;particulars

事典

じてん

→

encyclopedia

事

こと

→

incident;occurrence;event;something serious;trouble;crisis

事業

じぎょう

→

(social) project;undertaking;enterprise;work;activity;program;service

事務的

じむてき

→

impersonal;perfunctory;robot-like

事故

じこ

→

circumstances;reasons

事

こと

→

circumstances;situation;state of affairs

事

こと

→

work;business;affair

事

こと

→

after an inflectable word, creates a noun phrase indicating something the speaker does not feel close to

事

こと

→

nominalizing suffix

事

こと

→

pretending to ...;playing make-believe ...

事

こと

→

alias;also known as;otherwise known as;or

事

こと

→

necessity;need

事

こと

→

you should ...;I advise that you ...;it's important to ...

事による

ことによる

→

depending on the circumstances

事業家

じぎょうか

→

enterprising man;businessman;industrialist

事にする

ことにする

→

to decide to

事がある

ことがある

→

(for something) to have occurred;to have done (something)

事になる

ことになる

→

to have been decided (so) that;to have been arranged (so) that

事がない

ことがない

→

(something) has never occurred;to have never done (something);such a thing has not happened

事業化

じぎょうか

→

industrialization;industrialisation

事務総局

じむそうきょく

→

secretariat-general

事によって

ことによって

→

via;through;by doing;by means of;using

事物

じぶつ

→

things;affairs