Kanji
Readingえき
Frequency6%
Used in (69 in total)
active duty; active service; student taking (university) entrance exams while still enrolled in school; student who passed their university entrance exams on the first try
setting (someone) to work; employment; using; causative (verb, etc.)
military campaign; battle; war
penal servitude; imprisonment with hard labor (hard labour)
retiring from military service
penal servitude; serving time in prison; military service; forced labor; compulsory service
military service; conscription
work; labor; labour; toil
slave labour; slave labor; compulsory service; forced labour; forced labor; exacted service
service in the first reserve
military service
toil; drudgery; penal servitude; imprisonment (with hard labour)
life imprisonment; imprisonment for life; indefinite imprisonment
war; campaign; battle; (arch.) unpaid work (ritsuryo system); (arch.) forced labor
chore; odd job
handling cargo; loading and unloading
placed in commission; entering servitude
jail sentence; imprisonment
labor; labour; service
public service
passing university entrance exams in the last year of high school (instead of failing then taking gap year(s))
student taking (university) entrance exams while still enrolled in school; student who passed their university entrance exams on the first try
to set (citizens) to work; to employ (by force); to use
distribution of assignments
release from office; military service, or prison
compulsory military service
first Japanese invasion of Korea (1592-93)
working generation; people still working
the Satsuma Rebellion
laborer; labourer
active player; player on the active list
physical labor; physical labour; physical work; forced labor imposed by the government (e.g. under the ritsuryo system)
working animal; draught animal; draft animal
Russo-Japanese War (1904-5)
Keichō campaign (1597-98; incl. the second Japanese invasion of Korea in 1597)
evading military service; draft dodging; draft evasion
beasts of burden
First Sino-Japanese war (1894-5)
in prison; in the military
Military Service Law (1927-1945)
prison labor; prison labour
statute-labor service (ritsuryo period); socage
service in the second reserve; military reserve force comprised of ex-servicemen
prison labor camp; prison labour camp
Imjin War (1592-1597); Hideyoshi's invasions of Korea
re-enlistment; second imprisonment
Meiji 27-28 Campaign (alternate name for the First Sino-Japanese war; 1894-1895)
draft refuser; draft objector
debt bondage (ritsuryo system); forced labor on failure to pay a debt
active and (first) reserve duty
draft exemption; exemption from conscription
labor system in which able-bodied men were required to work for periods in the capital (ritsuryo system)
work cow; work cattle
reparation in the form of service