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There are 12 total results for your 遣う search.

Characters Pronunciation
Romanization
Simple Dictionary Definition

遣う

see styles
 tsukau
    つかう
(transitive verb) (1) to use (a thing, method, etc.); to make use of; to put to use; (2) to use (a person, animal, puppet, etc.); to employ; to handle; to manage; to manipulate; (3) to use (time, money, etc.); to spend; to consume; (4) to use (language); to speak

気遣う

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 kizukau
    きづかう
(v5u,vi) to worry about; to feel anxious about; to have apprehensions of

気を遣う

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 kiotsukau
    きをつかう
(exp,v5u) to pay attention to another's needs; to attend to; to fuss about; to take into consideration

金を遣う

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 kaneotsukau
    かねをつかう
(exp,v5u) to spend money

人形を遣う

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 ningyouotsukau / ningyootsukau
    にんぎょうをつかう
(exp,v5u) to manipulate puppets; to pull wires

Variations:
使う(P)
遣う

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 tsukau
    つかう
(transitive verb) (1) to use (a tool, method, etc.); to make use of; to put to use; (transitive verb) (2) to use (a person, animal, puppet, etc.); to employ; to handle; to manage; to manipulate; (transitive verb) (3) to use (time, money, etc.); to spend; to consume; (transitive verb) (4) to use (language); to speak

Variations:
気遣う
気づかう

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 kizukau
    きづかう
(transitive verb) to worry about (someone's welfare or comfort); to feel anxious about; to have apprehensions of

正しい言葉を遣う

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 tadashiikotobaotsukau / tadashikotobaotsukau
    ただしいことばをつかう
(exp,v5u) to use the correct word

Variations:
金を遣う
金を使う

see styles
 kaneotsukau
    かねをつかう
(exp,v5u) to spend money

Variations:
人形を使う
人形を遣う

see styles
 ningyouotsukau / ningyootsukau
    にんぎょうをつかう
(exp,v5u) to manipulate puppets; to pull wires

Variations:
声色を使う
声色を遣う

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 kowairootsukau
    こわいろをつかう
(exp,v5u) (oft. as 〜の声色を使う) to mimic someone's voice; to impersonate

Variations:
気を使う
気を遣う
気をつかう

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 kiotsukau
    きをつかう
(exp,v5u) to worry (about); to fuss (over); to be careful (about); to pay attention (to); to take (good) care of
This page contains 12 results for "遣う" in Chinese and/or Japanese.



Information about this dictionary:

Apparently, we were the first ones who were crazy enough to think that western people might want a combined Chinese, Japanese, and Buddhist dictionary.

A lot of westerners can't tell the difference between Chinese and Japanese - and there is a reason for that. Chinese characters and even whole words were borrowed by Japan from the Chinese language in the 5th century. Much of the time, if a word or character is used in both languages, it will have the same or a similar meaning. However, this is not always true. Language evolves, and meanings independently change in each language.

Example: The Chinese character 湯 for soup (hot water) has come to mean bath (hot water) in Japanese. They have the same root meaning of "hot water", but a 湯屋 sign on a bathhouse in Japan would lead a Chinese person to think it was a "soup house" or a place to get a bowl of soup. See this: Japanese Bath House

This dictionary uses the EDICT and CC-CEDICT dictionary files.
EDICT data is the property of the Electronic Dictionary Research and Development Group, and is used in conformance with the Group's license.

Chinese Buddhist terms come from Dictionary of Chinese Buddhist Terms by William Edward Soothill and Lewis Hodous. This is commonly referred to as "Soothill's'". It was first published in 1937 (and is now off copyright so we can use it here). Some of these definitions may be misleading, incomplete, or dated, but 95% of it is good information. Every professor who teaches Buddhism or Eastern Religion has a copy of this on their bookshelf. We incorporated these 16,850 entries into our dictionary database ourselves (it was lot of work).



Combined, these cover 1,007,753 Japanese, Chinese, and Buddhist characters, words, idioms, names, placenames, and short phrases.

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