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稼

earnings
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Readings

On readingカ
Kun readingかせ.ぐ

Verbs with «稼»

稼ぐ稼働する稼げる

Meanings

  1. earningsRtK
    彼は働いて稼ぐだけみな貯金する。He saves what he earns.tatoeba
    彼は新商売で荒稼ぎをした。He made a killing in his new business.tatoeba
  2. work
    彼は先月、アルバイトをして10万円も稼いだ。He earned as much as 100,000 yen working part-time last month.tatoeba
  3. earn money
    彼は生活するのに十分な金を稼いでいない。He doesn't earn enough money to live on.tatoeba
  1. to earn (income)
  2. to make (money)
  3. to score (points, victory)
  4. to gain (time)
  5. to play (for time)

Popular Usage

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Mnemonic (RtK)

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wheat (禾) · cereal (禾) · house · sow · pig

From "Remembering the Kanji" by James Heisig · Frame 959

Compound words

Real voices: how native speakers say it

These sentences were read aloud by real people — native Japanese speakers — for the open Mozilla Common Voice project. Listen to how a phrase sounds in real speech: the intonation, the pace, the way words run together. Two speakers mean two different people read it — compare them.

お金稼ぐおれらはスター
おかねかせぐおれらはすたーWe money-makers are stars.
上司が来るまで時間を稼いでくれ
じょうしがくるまでじかんをかせいでくれBuy time until the boss arrives.
読書感想文で文字数稼ぎして乗り切る
どくしょかんそうぶんでもじすうかせぎしてのりきるI got through the book report by padding the word count.

Recordings and sentences: Mozilla Common Voice, CC0

Stroke Order

15 strokes

Practice Writing

Practice Writing 稼

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