勤

Meaning

勤 centers on sustained effort and commitment: working diligently, being employed, or serving in a role. The idea of becoming employed is a natural application of applying oneself steadily.

• 勤務きんむ
  N2

  service; duty; work

• 通勤つうきん
  N3

  commuting to work

• 出勤しゅっきん
  N3

  going to work; leaving for work; attendance (at work); being at work; presence (in the office); reporting for work

• 勤めつとめ
  N3

  service; duty; business; responsibility; task

• 勤めるつとめる
  N5

  to work (for); to be employed (at); to serve (in)

• 夜勤やきん

  night duty; night shift; night work

• 転勤てんきん
  N3

  job transfer; job relocation; intra-company transfer

• 非常勤ひじょうきん
  N1

  part-time work

• 勤労きんろう
  N1

  labor; labour; exertion; diligent service

• 勤勉きんべん
  N1

  diligent; hard-working; industrious

• 勤しむいそしむ

  to work hard at; to devote oneself to; to be diligent in

• 常勤じょうきん
  N1

  full-time employment

• 勤め先つとめさき
  N1

  place of work

• 欠勤けっきん

  absence (from work)

• 勤続きんぞく
  N1

  continuous service

• 皆勤かいきん

  perfect attendance

• 日勤にっきん

  day shift; day duty; day work

• 参勤交代さんきんこうたい

  daimyo's alternating Edo residence; official attendance service (by a daimyo in the Edo period)

• 退勤たいきん

  leaving work; clocking out

• 内勤ないきん

  office work; desk work; indoor work

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