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Jōyō kanji, Taught in grade 5

JLPT level: N1

734 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Stroke count: 16

Meaning: entertain, revive, retrieve, interest, pleasure

Kunyomi: おこ.る, おこ.す

Onyomi: コウ, キョウ

Composition: 𦥑 同 八

興

Radical

Radical: 臼

Reading: うす

Meaning: mortar

Strokes: 6

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Examples

Examples with audio

興奮する(こうふんする)   be excited [v.i.]

興隆する(こうりゅうする)   prosper

復興する(ふっこうする)   revive [vi., vt.]

興亡(こうぼう)   rise and fall

興(きょう)   interest, entertainment

興味(きょうみ)   interest (in something)

余興(よきょう)   side show

即興(そっきょう)   improvisation

興る(おこる)   rise, flourish [v.i.]

興す(おこす)   revive [v.t.]

Onyomi Examples

興行 (コウギョウ) show, performance, act, entertainment industry, show business

興業 (コウギョウ) promotion of industry, inauguration of a new industrial enterprise

新興 (シンコウ) rising, developing, emergent, burgeoning, new

再興 (サイコウ) revival, restoration, resuscitation

興 (キョウ) interest, entertainment, pleasure, implicit comparison (style of the Shi Jing)

興味 (キョウミ) interest (in something), curiosity (about something), zest (for)

一興 (イッキョウ) amusement, fun, brief entertainment

遊興 (ユウキョウ) merrymaking (esp. wine and women), pleasures

Kunyomi Examples

興る (おこる) to rise, to flourish

興す (おこす) to vitalize (e.g. an industry), to invigorate, to energize, to revive, to promote, to make prosperous, to establish (e.g. a company), to build up, to set up, to launch, to commence

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