First opened Wednesday, October 29, 2008
仕様
しよう
- flat (heiban)
How to read it: a line over a kana means the voice is high there, and ↓ marks where it drops. A kana with no line is low. With no ↓ the pitch stays high to the end and does not drop even on a following particle (が, は).
way, method, specification
In 仕様, the character 仕 is ateji for し, the continuative form of する.
Taken apart
No breakdown is shown for this word: Wiktionary's text for it doesn't give a split that spells the word and joins to its reading, and any other split would be a guess.
In a sentence
仕様、価格は変更することがあります。
Specifications and price are subject to change.
全てを考慮してもやはり勝てない仕様になっています。
All things considered, it's set up so it isn't possible to win.
Sentences are from Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0 FR), picked by fixed rules from a dated export and shown unchanged. Nobody has reviewed them one by one.
What Wiktionary says
Quoted line by line from Wiktionary's Etymology section for this reading, taken from one dated dump so it can't change underneath us. Nothing below is paraphrased.
- “仕 is an ateji (当(あ)て字(じ)) spelling of し (shi), the 連用形 (ren'yōkei, “continuative or stem form”) of する (suru, “to do”).”
Source: Wiktionary: 仕様 (dump of 2026-09-02), available under CC BY-SA 4.0. Reading, meaning and part of speech from JMdict, and kanji readings from KANJIDIC2 (EDRDG).
What the labels mean
- 漢語 Sino-Japanese
- Words built from Chinese-derived morphemes — borrowed from Chinese or coined in Japan out of Chinese parts — read with on'yomi.
- Ateji
- Kanji chosen for their sound or sense after the word existed.