仕 — how to write the kanji for “attend”

仕 means “attend”, “doing” and “official”; it is a JLPT N4 kanji, taught in third grade in Japan. In newspapers it is the 439th most used kanji. Its parts sit side by side: 亻 (“person”), strokes 1–2; 士 (“gentleman”), strokes 3–5, each finished before the next. Its common words take the reading shi: 仕事 (“work”), 仕組み (“structure”), 仕方 (“way”) and 仕掛け (“device”). Chinese reads it shì, “to serve as an official”.

Strokes

5

JLPT

N4

Radical

人 (“person”)

On

シ, ジ

Kun

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