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奥

JLPT N2 12 strokes Frequency: #1018

Meanings

Heart, Interior

Radicals

大

Decomposition

⿱⿵宀米大

Etymology

Ideographic: A person 大 discovering a house 宀 full of rice 米

Writing Practice

Stroke 0 / 12

Stroke Order

1 diagonal right-to-left

2 vertical bottom-right-to-top-left

3 hook bottom-right-to-top-left

4 dot bottom-right-to-top-left

5 diagonal right-to-left

6 horizontal bottom-right-to-top-left

7 vertical right-to-left

8 diagonal bottom-right-to-top-left

9 dot bottom-right-to-top-left

10 horizontal bottom-to-top

11 diagonal top-right-to-bottom-left

12 diagonal bottom-right-to-top-left

On'yomi (Chinese reading)

オウ ou

Kun'yomi (Japanese reading)

くま kuma

おく oku

Words Using This Kanji

76 words total

Other (20 words)

最奥さいおう

deep inside

奥が深いおくがふかい

profound

奥の手を使うおくのてをつかう

to play one's trump card

右奥みぎおく

rear right (corner, etc.)

左奥ひだりおく

left back (corner, etc.)

奥医師おくいし

court physician (of the Shōgun and his household, Edo period)

陸奥むつ

Mutsu (former province located in present-day Fukushima, Miyagi, Iwate, and Aomori prefectures)

奥羽おうう

Ōu (the two former provinces of Mutsu and Dewa)

奥二重おくぶたえ

hidden double eyelid

奥羽大学おううだいがく

Ohu University

奥の細道おくのほそみち

The Narrow Road to the Deep North (chronicle by Matsuo Basho, published in 1702)

奥村組おくむらぐみ

Okumura Corporation

陸奥丸むつまる

Mutsumaru

クレーヴの奥方クレーヴのおくがた

La Princesse de Clèves (1678 novel by Madame de La Fayette)

クレーブの奥方クレーブのおくがた

La Princesse de Clèves (1678 novel by Madame de La Fayette)

inner part

secluded

secret

inner parlor

refined

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