Japanese Kanji
為i
do · change · make
Secondary school · JLPT N1 · 9 strokes
Do, change, make, benefit, welfare, be of use, reach to, try, practice, cost, serve as, good, advantage, as a result of.
為 is part of the secondary school jōyō kanji — the full set of characters used in everyday Japanese. In the JLPT proficiency test it appears at N1 (advanced) level. With 9 strokes, this character appears in numerous compound words throughout written Japanese.
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