漢字Kanji · in States & Attributes
奥: heart, interior
JLPT N212 strokesSecondary schoolYour ink: 白 Not met
丿 and 大 carry the meaning · 冂 and 米 are drawn in
12 strokes
Two readings, and the words that use each
オウou · on'yomi · in compounds
- 奥義おうぎsecrets
おくoku · kun'yomi · on its own
- 奥おくinner, inmost
- 奥さんおくさんwife
- 山奥やまおくmountain recesses
- 奥の間おくのまinner room
- 奥歯おくばback teeth
Also read おくまる, くま, with no example words in our sources. Words: Kanji alive, CC BY 4.0.
成り立ち
Where it comes from
Memory story · made up to help you remember
“Stretch out wide! This radical represents anything that is grand, important, or massive in scale.”
繋がり
Connections
Ink shades, lightest to darkest: 白 Not met, 淡 Met, 中 Learning, 濃 Familiar, 印 Mastered
Easy to confuse
The difference, side by side奥 heart · 丿 + 冂 + 大
vs断 severance · 斤In ChineseSimplified, as in Japanese · traditional 奧 · ào
Japan uses the same simplified form as mainland China, 奥. Taiwan and Hong Kong write 奧.
- Simplified
- 奥 mainland China, Singapore
- Traditional
- 奧 Taiwan, Hong Kong
Pinyin ào most common reading
Forms and pinyin: Unicode Unihan database (Unicode License v3). Pinyin lists the most common reading, not every reading.
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