# 務 — Task

Frequency rank 167 / 2,608 in published Japanese.

Common in published Japanese. A handful of these and real text starts to open.

More common than 指 (Finger), less common than 屋 (Roof).

- On’yomi: む
- Kun’yomi: つと
- Radical: 力 Power (Kangxi 19)
- Frequency path: Level II of XX
- School grade: 5
- Strokes: 10

Midwinter, and the barbed spear is still driven through the shield and through the man holding it, the tassel snapping in the sleet.

In words:

- 務め つとめ — (1) service,duty,(2) Buddhist religious services
- 務める つとめる — (1) to serve,to fill a post,to serve under,to work (for)
- 義務 ぎむ — duty,obligation,responsibility

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