日本語
Kanji
N1 8 strokes Grade 8 freq #1939

waiter, samurai, wait upon, serve

On'yomi (音読み)

Kun'yomi (訓読み)

Radical (部首)

person hito

Others with this radical

On'yomi compounds (音読み)

chamberlain
court physician
lady attendant; female servant
guard house in a samurai style house (Kamakura period)
cowardly or depraved samurai
low-ranking samurai; samurai of the lowest rank
man in attendance (on a person of high standing); retainer
respectfully
serving; attending on someone
cowardly, good-for-nothing samurai from the countryside

Kun'yomi words (訓読み)

warrior (esp. of military retainers of daimyos in the Edo period); samurai
to have someone wait upon one; to have someone by one's side
to attend (a person of high rank); to wait upon (e.g. a noble)
samurai eboshi; angularly folded eboshi worn by samurai
Seven Samurai (film by Akira Kurosawa)
Samurai Japan (national baseball team)
Board of Retainers (Kamakura and Muromachi-period government office)
Polyergus samurai (species of amazon ant)
to wait upon; to serve

Example sentences

A samurai's blood runs in Taro's veins.

"The Nightingale Samurai" is a samurai tale full of humanity and humour.