utilize, business, service, use
Came from Chinese. It usually shows up when the kanji is joined to another, forming a compound word.
It is Japanese. It usually shows up when the kanji stands alone or is followed by hiragana.
The order matters: it is what makes handwriting come out legible, and it is how dictionaries index the character.
Visual decomposition, for recognising and comparing — not always the character's origin.
Where it appears is highlighted — the translation doesn't always make that visible.
それは紺より薄いよ。いいけど、実用的じゃないかな。
Sore wa kon yori usui yo. Ii kedo, jitsuyouteki ja nai kana.
That one's thinner than the navy. Nice, but not as practical.
朝、ミチコは用事で出かけました。
Asa, Michiko wa youji de dekakemashita.
Michiko went out to run some errands in the morning.
Readings and meanings: KANJIDIC2 · Decomposition: KRADFILE · Both from Electronic Dictionary Research and Development Group, CC BY-SA 4.0 · data from 2026-10-22 · Strokes: KanjiVG, Ulrich Apel, CC BY-SA 3.0