役
role; duty; war; campaign; drafted labor; office; service
7 strokes. Taught in grade 3. Newspaper frequency rank 315.
Readings
- ヤク (on reading): 役 (やく) role; 役割 (やくわり) part
- エキ (on reading): 現役 (げんえき) active duty; 現役時代 (げんえきじだい) active career
Components
- 彳
- 殳
- 几 radical table
- 又 radical again; right hand
- 彳 radical step, left-side form of 行
- 殳 radical weapon; strike
Words using 役
- 役 (やく) role
- 役割 (やくわり) part
- 役立つ (やくだつ) to be useful
- 取締役 (とりしまりやく) company director
- 代表取締役 (だいひょうとりしまりやく) representative director
- 現役 (げんえき) active duty
- 現役時代 (げんえきじだい) active career
- 就役 (しゅうえき) being placed on duty
- 懲役 (ちょうえき) penal servitude
- 退役 (たいえき) retiring from military service
314 words in all.