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    3. 御用

    御用

    御ご用よう

    (your) business

    KMT9News #26+1Business & FinanceKanji Vocab17 strokes

    ご用

    ごよう

    Noun

    1.
    (your) business, (your) concern, (your) need
    honorific or respectful (sonkeigo) language
    2.
    (customer's) order
    honorific or respectful (sonkeigo) language
    3.
    official business (of the government, Imperial Court, etc.)
    4.
    arrest, capture

    Noun, Verb

    5.
    subservient to an authority (esp. the government), pro-government

    Stroke 0 / 17

    Speed1.0x

    何なにか御ご用ようでしょうか。

    Is there anything I can help you with? (Do you have any business/need?)

    KMT7Business & FinanceDaily Life
    お客きゃく様さま、御ご用ようがございましたら、お気き軽がるにお申もうし付つけください。

    Customer, if you have any needs, please feel free to let us know.

    KMT9Business & FinanceDaily Life
    江え戸ど時じ代だい、御ご用よう商しょう人にんたちは幕ばく府ふの財ざい政せいを支ささえた。

    During the Edo period, official merchants supported the shogunate's finances.

    KMT9HistoryBusiness & FinancePolitics & Law
    御ご用よう聞ききが、地ち域いきの住じゅう民みんから注ちゅう文もんを伺うかがいに回まわる。

    The order-taker goes around to hear orders from local residents.

    KMT9Business & FinanceDaily Life
    彼かれは政せい府ふの御ご用よう学がく者しゃと批ひ判はんされた。

    He was criticized as a pro-government scholar.

    KMT9Politics & LawEducation

    Kanji that make up this word

    御
    おん-・お-・み-…(3)
    honorable・manipulate・govern
    用
    もち.いる…(2)
    utilize・business・service・use・employ
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