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Jōyō kanji, Taught in grade 5

JLPT level: N2

665 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Stroke count: 10

Meaning: navigate, sail, cruise, fly

Kunyomi:

Onyomi: コウ

Composition: 舟 亢

航

Radical

Radical: 舟

Reading: ふねへん

Meaning: boat

Strokes: 6

Reading: ふねへん

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Examples

Examples with audio

航海(こうかい)   voyage, cruise, navigation

航路(こうろ)   course, route, run

航空機(こうくうき)   aircraft

航空券(こうくうけん)   air ticket

航空便(こうくうびん)   air mail

航空会社(こうくうがいしゃ)   airline company

運航する(うんこうする)   run (between), ply (the waters)

難航する(なんこうする)   make a difficult passage

Onyomi Examples

航空 (コウクウ) aviation, flying

航海 (コウカイ) (sea) voyage, navigation, sailing, passage, cruise

密航 (ミッコウ) smuggling (people), stowing away

就航 (シュウコウ) entering service (on a route; of a plane or ship), going into commission, being in service

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