serve; do

Builds 35 distinct compound words — ranked #79 of 100 for productivity.

音 on: シ・ジ
訓 kun: つか.える

Originally serving a superior; now largely a prefix meaning 'doing'. 仕事 work, 仕方 a way of doing, 仕組み a mechanism.

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

35compounds built

2,401times those words occur

#153by productivity alone

#50by how often it turns up

Where 仕 leads

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

事matter; abstract thing仕事、仕事中、仕事場#9 上above; up仕上げる#16 中middle; inside仕事中#18 方direction; method; person仕方、仕方ない#38 場place; scene仕事場#77

Words built on 仕

仕事しごと2,061 uses

仕方しかた64 uses

仕上げるしあげる62 uses

仕事中22 uses

仕方ない19 uses

仕えるつかえる15 uses

お仕舞い14 uses

仕返ししかえし11 uses

仕事場しごとば11 uses

仕草しぐさ10 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.