事

matter; abstract thing

Builds 102 distinct compound words — ranked #9 of 100 for productivity.

音 on: ジ・ズ
訓 kun: こと

The counterpart to 物: things that happen rather than things you hold. 仕事 work, 事故 an accident, 大事 a serious matter.

The ten most common compounds built on 事. Tap any word that leads to another mapped character to follow it.

102compounds built

14,761times those words occur

#22by productivity alone

#3by how often it turns up

Where 事 leads

Other characters from the top 100 that share a word with 事. Each one opens its own map.

食eat; food食事#32 通pass through; commute交通事故#37 所place事務所#42 実fruit; truth; actual事実#70 仕serve; do仕事#79 業work; industry; deed事業#86

Words built on 事

事こと9,343 uses

仕事しごと2,061 uses 事故じこ556 uses

事実じじつ318 uses

食事しょくじ317 uses

返事へんじ205 uses

事件じけん200 uses

火事かじ145 uses

事業じぎょう136 uses

交通事故106 uses

Counts from the Tanaka Corpus index via Tatoeba, 1,178,504 words of segmented Japanese. Tatoeba sentences are contributed by learners and teachers, so frequencies reflect textbook Japanese rather than a general corpus. Compound readings are generated — from the corpus where it records one, otherwise from a tokenizer — and are omitted rather than guessed where neither resolves the word. Character meanings and on/kun readings are written by hand.