Character · Qualities
事
こと kotoばんじ banjiなにごと nanigotoいちじ ichiji
matter, affair
Composition
Origin
A hand holding an instrument of office, close to 史: the duty performed, hence the matter.
In the thoughts
- 万事banjiall things
- 何事nanigotoeverything
- 一事ichijione thing
- 食事shokujimeals
Proverbs carrying this character
- 032 急いては事を仕損じる Haste ruins the work.
- 076 人間万事塞翁が馬 Everything in life is like the old man's horse.
- 081 為せば成る、為さねば成らぬ、何事も Act, and it will be done; do not act, and it will not — in all things.
- 082 我、事において後悔せず In my deeds, I know no regret.
- 120 一事が万事 One thing tells all things.
- 296 家は漏らぬほど、食事は飢えぬほどにて足る事なり A house that does not leak, meals that end hunger: that is enough.