so I was looking at the kanji in this word 就活 (しゅうかつ) "job hunting" I like to look at the… - Feed Post by Jadore_Violet

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  mog86uk

  Among the meanings listed for 就 are "take position, settle".
  
  The next thing to do is check the kunyomi of the kanji. There are two kunyomi listed: つ.く and つ.ける.
  
  就く (つく) - one of the meanings listed is "to take (position, seat, course, etc.), to assume".
  就ける (つける) - one of the meanings is "to appoint (to a post), to promote"".
  
  As for the second kanji, 活 as a suffix means "action, activity".
  
  So you could say 就活 = "the activity of taking a position (for a job)".
  
  BUT, if you look at the listing in the dictionary of 就活 again, you should see that it is tagged as an abbreviation (or "abbr").
  
  So what you need to do next is find out what it is an abbreviation of by searching 就*活* (the * being a wildcard to search for any or no characters). You should see the following result:
  就職活動 (しゅうしょくかつどう) "job hunting; job searching"
  
  So if you use look up each kanji within 就職活動, then that abbreviation 就活 might make more sense. ^^

  December 7, 2015 at 6:38am
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  fuonk

  Magnificent response, mog86ukさん！

  December 7, 2015 at 12:10pm
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  Jadore_Violet

  モグ先輩は何時もすごいね。ありがとうございます。

  December 8, 2015 at 5:24pm