致

Meaning

致 centers on bringing about a result through deliberate action: causing something to happen, exerting effort to achieve an effect, or sending/forwarding something to a destination. The older sense of 'doth' is an archaic form of 'do', fitting the active, causative core.

• 致すいたす
  N4

  to do

• 一致いっち
  N3

  agreement; accord; correspondence; consistency; coincidence; match

• 拉致らち

  taking captive; carrying away; kidnapping; kidnaping; abduction

• 致命ちめい

  fatal

• どう致しましてどういたしまして
  N5

  you're welcome; don't mention it; not at all; my pleasure

• 誘致ゆうち

  attraction; lure; invitation

• 致死ちし

  lethal; fatal

• 合致がっち
  N1

  agreement; concurrence; conformance; compliance

• 招致しょうち
  N4

  invitation; summons; bidding (e.g. to host the Olympics); calling

• 致命傷ちめいしょう

  fatal wound

• 不一致ふいっち

  discrepancy; discord; disagreement; mismatch; dissonance

• 致し方いたしかた

  way; method; means; resource; course

• 満場一致まんじょういっち

  unanimity; unanimous consent; unanimous agreement

• 致傷ちしょう

  inflicting injury (criminally)

• 送致そうち

  sending; forwarding

• 致死傷ちししょう

  fatal wound

• 極致きょくち

  culmination; acme; height; peak; ultimate; perfection; ideal

• 筆致ひっち

  stroke of the brush; touch

• 挙国一致きょこくいっち

  national unity; unity of the whole nation

• 風致ふうち

  taste; elegance; scenic beauty

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