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Keyword
for the sake of
  • do
  • change
  • make
  • benefit
  • welfare
  • be of use
  • reach to
  • try
  • practice
  • cost
  • serve as
  • good
  • advantage
  • as a result of
Frequency
#831
Strokes
9
Grade
8
JLPT (old)
N1
Heisig
2067
Readings
イ67%
ため22%
な11%
Mnemonic
The firefighter runs back into the burning house for the sake of a hamster, emerging singed and sooty with a tiny fluffy passenger in his helmet.
Stroke order
Used in kanji
Used in vocabulary
為ため
good; advantage; benefit; welfare; sake; purpose; objective; aim; consequence; result; …
Noun
行こう為い
act; deed; conduct
Noun
為替かわせ
money order; draft; exchange (e.g. foreign)
Noun
為替かわせ相そう場ば
exchange rate; rate of exchange
Noun
人じん為い的てき
artificial; unnatural; human-caused (e.g. mistake, error, disaster); man-made
Na-adjective
為ために
for; for the sake of; to one's advantage; in favor of; in favour of; on behalf of; because of; as a result of
Conjunction
為し過すぎる
to overdo; to do too much
Ichidan verb
為続しつづける
to continue to do; to persist in doing
Ichidan verb
念ねんの為ため
just to make sure; just to be sure; for confirmation; just in case; for caution's sake; by way of precaution
Expression
為なす
to do; to commit; to carry out; to bring about
Godan verb
無む作さく為い
random; unintentional; unintended
No-adjective
為替かわせ管かん理り
exchange control
Noun
郵ゆう便びん為替かわせ
postal money order
Noun
為して遣やる
to do for (someone); to take in; to deceive; to hoodwink
Godan verb
作さく為い
artificiality; pretence; contrived act; commission (of a crime); feasance
Noun
所しょ為い
act; deed; one's doing; cause; reason
Noun
性せい行こう為い
sexual act; sexual intercourse
Noun
為す
to do
Su verb
為なり
promoted (of a piece)
Noun
為い
second string of a koto (counting from the player's near side)
Noun
人じん為い
human work; human agency; art; artificiality
Noun
不ふ作さく為い
forbearance; omission; nonfeasance; inaction
Noun
作さく為い的てき
intentional; deliberate; contrived; artificial
Na-adjective