Kanji N3

務: task, duties

務 is a JLPT N3 kanji meaning task, duties, written with 11 strokes. It is read ム (on) and つとめる (kun). Children in Japan learn it in grade 5. You will see it in 事務 (じむ, office work) and 事務所 (じむしょ, office).

務

Meanings

  • task
  • duties
Strokes11
JLPT levelN3
School gradeGrade 5
Frequency#111 of 2,500

On reading · Kun reading

On reading
  • ム

On'yomi: from Chinese, written in katakana. Used in compound words.

Kun reading
  • つとめる

Kun'yomi: native Japanese, in hiragana. The faint part is the okurigana, written in kana after the kanji.

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Common words with 務

The most useful words written with it, easiest first. Every other kanji in them opens its own page.

  • 事務じむ

    office work; clerical work; administration

    JLPT N3
  • 事務所じむしょ

    office

    JLPT N4
  • 公務員こうむいん

    public employee; government employee

    JLPT N4
  • 義務ぎむ

    duty; obligation; responsibility

    JLPT N3
  • 業務ぎょうむ

    business; work; operations; service; duties

    JLPT N1
  • 勤務きんむ

    service; duty; work

    JLPT N1
  • 任務にんむ

    duty; function; office; mission; task; role

    JLPT N1
  • 職務しょくむ

    professional duties

    JLPT N1

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Stroke order from KanjiVG © Ulrich Apel, CC BY-SA 3.0. Readings, meanings and words from KANJIDIC2 and JMdict, names from JMnedict, © EDRDG, CC BY-SA 4.0, and Wikidata, CC0; the Spanish meanings they lack, translated by Naraio from their English, are shared under the same licence. Example sentences from Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR. JLPT lists after Jonathan Waller (tanos.co.uk), CC BY. Sentences split into words with IPADIC © NAIST and IPA, through Lindera.