Kanji

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:

Radical

Radical:

Reading: うす

Meaning: mortar

Strokes: 6

Examples

Examples with audio

奮する(こうふんする)   be excited [v.i.]

隆する(こうりゅうする)   prosper

する(ふっこうする)   revive [vi., vt.]

亡(こうぼう)   rise and fall

(きょう)   interest, entertainment

味(きょうみ)   interest (in something)

(よきょう)   side show

(そっきょう)   improvisation

る(おこる)   rise, flourish [v.i.]

す(おこす)   revive [v.t.]

Onyomi Examples

コウギョウ show, performance, act, entertainment industry, show business

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

シンコウ rising, developing, emergent, burgeoning, new

サイコウ revival, restoration, resuscitation

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

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

イッキョウ amusement, fun, brief entertainment

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

Kunyomi Examples

おこる to rise, to flourish

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