仕

official; civil service

Transitive verb

to finish; to stop; to end; to put an end to; to bring to a close

Transitive verb

to close (a business, etc.); to close down; to shut down; to shut up

Transitive verb

to put away; to put back; to keep; to store

Auxiliary verb; After the -te form of a verb

to do completely; to finish

Auxiliary verb; After the -te form of a verb

to do accidentally; to do without meaning to; to happen to do; to end up ...

Noun or participle which takes the aux. verb suru; Intransitive verb

work; job; labor; labour; business; task; assignment; occupation; employment

Physics

work

there's no (other) way

cannot be helped; unavoidable; inevitable; (there's) nothing one can do; having no choice

Oft. as 〜ても仕方ない

it's no use (doing); pointless; useless; no good; insufficient; not enough

hopeless (person); annoying; troublesome; awful

As 〜て仕方ない or 〜で仕方ない

cannot stand it; unbearable; cannot help (doing, feeling); dying (to do)

there's no (other) way

cannot be helped; unavoidable; inevitable; (there's) nothing one can do; having no choice

Oft. as 〜ても仕方がない

it's no use (doing); pointless; useless; no good; insufficient; not enough

hopeless (person); annoying; troublesome; awful

As 〜て仕方がない or 〜で仕方がない

cannot stand it; unbearable; cannot help (doing, feeling); dying (to do)

there's no (other) way

cannot be helped; unavoidable; inevitable; (there's) nothing one can do; having no choice; it is what it is

Oft. as 〜てもしょうがない

it's no use (doing); pointless; useless; no good; insufficient; not enough

hopeless (person); annoying; troublesome; awful

As 〜てしょうがない or 〜でしょうがない

cannot stand it; unbearable; cannot help (doing, feeling); dying (to do)

to start; to begin; to commence

to challenge; to pick (a fight); to make (war); to draw (a reaction) from

to set (traps); to plant (explosives); to lay (mines)

Mahjong

to make a meld call

way; method; means; resource; course

gesture; movement; action; behavior; behaviour; bearing; mannerism

acting; performance

to serve; to work for; to attend

deed (esp. negative); act; action; one's doing; one's work

to train; to teach; to educate

to acquire (information); to learn; to cram

to stock; to stock up on

to prepare (esp. ingredients for brewing)

to insert; to build into; to fit

structure; construction; arrangement; contrivance; mechanism; workings

plan; plot; contrivance

device; contrivance; mechanism; gadget

trick; trap; calculated manipulation; gambit

(small) scale; half finished

commencement; initiation

set up; laying out; preparation

challenge; attack

to buy (stock, materials, etc.); to purchase; to lay in; to stock; to procure

to get; to obtain

Transitive verb

to partition; to divide; to mark off

Transitive verb

to direct; to manage; to run; to organize; to take responsibility for

Transitive verb

to settle accounts

Intransitive verb; Sumo

to assume a crouching posture (at the start of a bout); to poise oneself for the initial charge

to finish up; to complete; to finish off; to get through; to polish off

to (go and) do; to make (a blunder, mess, etc.); to perpetrate; to carry out

to achieve; to accomplish; to pull off

at work; in the midst of work; working

Noun or verb acting prenominally

cannot be helped; unavoidable; inevitable; (there's) nothing one can do; having no choice

Noun or verb acting prenominally; Usu. as 〜ても仕方のない

pointless; useless; no good; insufficient; not enough

Noun or verb acting prenominally

hopeless (person); annoying; troublesome; awful

Noun or verb acting prenominally; As 〜て仕方のない or 〜で仕方のない

cannot stand it; unbearable; cannot help (doing, feeling); dying (to do)

end; close; finish; termination

仕舞 only

noh dance in plain clothes

payback; tit for tat; retaliation; revenge

doing over again; redoing

to tailor; to make (clothing)

to train; to bring up

to make it seem like; to pass off

to turn into a play or movie

to prepare; to send; to despatch

to bring down (an animal, opponent, etc.); to kill; to shoot dead; to shoot down