興 — entertain, revive, retrieve

きょう興 entertain

Grade 5 Japanese school grade level in which this kanji is taught. Grade 1 is first year of elementary school. 16 strokes

U+8208 Unicode hex codepoint — a unique identifier for this character in the Unicode standard. Freq #734 Frequency rank among the ~2,500 most common kanji in Japanese newspapers. Lower number = more common. Heisig #1533 Index in James Heisig's "Remembering the Kanji" — a popular textbook that teaches kanji through mnemonics and stories.

Meanings

entertain
revive
retrieve
interest
pleasure

word

きょう kyou On'yomi On'yomi (音読み) — the Sino-Japanese reading, derived from Chinese pronunciation. Most commonly used in compound words (jukugo).

興(きょう) kyou interest 興(きょう) 味(み) kyoumi interest 興(きょう) 味(み) 深(ぶか) い kyoumibukai very interesting 即(そっ) 興(きょう) sokkyou improvisation

こう kou On'yomi On'yomi (音読み) — the Sino-Japanese reading, derived from Chinese pronunciation. Most commonly used in compound words (jukugo).

復(ふっ) 興(こう) fukkou revival 新(しん) 興(こう) shinkou rising 興(こう) 行(ぎょう) kougyou entertainment 興(こう) 奮(ふん) koufun excitement 振(しん) 興(こう) shinkou promotion

Stroke order

Stroke data from KanjiVG (CC BY-SA 3.0)

Components

Composed of

𦥑 clasped hands (component)

どう同 same

はち八 eight #12

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