This site will be taken down March 31st, 2026.

This was not an easy decision to make. For the last couple years, I have been struggling to find motivation for this site and to keep up with basic maintenance and security updates. With the rise of AI and more sophisticated tools, the usefulness of sites like this is questionable and traffic has nose-dived. I just don't have it in me to keep doing this. Thank you all for 10 years of support!

Zach

Readings

Kana: ドウ、リュク、リキ、ロク、リョク、はたら.く
Romaji: dou, ryuku, riki, roku, ryoku, hatara.ku
Kana
Romaji

Meanings

work, (kokuji)

Stroke Diagram

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Kanji Info

Stroke Count:  13
Radical Number:  9
Frequency:  417
Grade:  4
Skip Pattern:  1-2-11
Korean Reading:  dong
Chinese Reading:  dong4
Unicode:  50cd
JIS:  462F

Indexes

Halpern Index: 153
Nelson Index: 532
New Nelson Index: 297
Spahn Hadamitzky Index: 2a11.1
Four Corner Index: 2422.7
Guide to Remembering Index: 558
Gakken Index: 444
Daikanwanjiten Index: 1079
Daikanwanjiten Index and Page: 1.0920
Remembering the kanji Index: 1678
Busy People Index: 3.15
Kanji Way Index: 137
Kanji Flashcards Index: 120
Kodansha Compact Index: 132
Read Writing Kanji Third Index: 585
Kanji in Context Index: 192
1999 Kanji Learners Index: 113
2013 Kanji Learners Index: 130
French Remembering the Kanji Index: 1694
Remembering the Kanji 6th Index: 1809
Essential Kanji Index: 170
Kodansha Kanji Index: 172
Roo 2001 Kanji Index: 2145
Read Writing the Kanji Index: 488
Tuttle Kanji Cards Index: 612

Words

労働 (ろうどう)
manual labor; manual labour; toil; work; Labour Party
稼働 (かどう)
operation (of machine); operating; running; working
働き (はたらき)
work; labor; labour; achievement; performance; ability; talent; salary; income; earnings; action; activity; workings; function; operation; movement; motion; conjugation; inflection
働き掛ける (はたらきかける)
to work on someone; to influence; to exert influence on; to seek action from; to appeal to; to begin to work
働きかけ (はたらきかけ)
pressure; encouragement; urging; promoting
働く (はたらく)
to work; to labor; to labour; to function; to operate; to be effective; to work (i.e. ... works); to come into play; to commit (e.g. a crime); to perpetrate; to do; to act; to practise; to practice; to be conjugated
労働省 (ろうどうしょう)
Ministry of Labour (now Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare)
労働党 (ろうどうとう)
Labour Party; Labor Party; worker's party
実働 (じつどう)
actual work
働かせる (はたらかせる)
to put someone to work; to make someone work; to use; to apply; to exert; to exercise (restraint, one's imagination, one's brain, etc.)
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