為

Meaning

為 centers on purposeful action and its outcomes: doing, making, or changing something for a benefit or advantage. The idea extends naturally to serving a role, trying, practicing, and the resulting welfare or cost.

• 為ため
  N4

  good; advantage; benefit; welfare

• 行為こうい
  N2

  act; deed; conduct

• 為替かわせ
  N2

  money order; draft

• 性行為せいこうい

  sexual act; sexual intercourse

• 作為さくい

  artificiality; pretence; contrived act

• 人為じんい

  human work; human agency; art; artificiality

• 為すなす
  N2

  to do; to commit; to carry out; to bring about

• 所為しょい

  act; deed; one's doing

• 無為むい

  idleness; inactivity

• 為政者いせいしゃ

  statesman; administrator; politician; policymaker

• 外為がいため

  foreign exchange

• 有為うい

  perpetual change caused by karma; vicissitudes of life; that which is made

• 小為替こがわせ

  (former) postal note (abolished in 1951); postal order; postal money order

• 外為法がいためほう

  Foreign Exchange and Foreign Trade Act

• 営為えいい

  business; occupation

• 為替相場かわせそうば

  exchange rate; rate of exchange

• 人為的じんいてき

  artificial; unnatural; human-caused (e.g. mistake, error, disaster); man-made

• 為にために

  for; for the sake of; to one's advantage; in favor of; in favour of; on behalf of

• 迷惑行為めいわくこうい

  disruptive behaviour; harassment; abusive behaviour

• 無作為むさくい

  random; unintentional; unintended

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