Kanji1 / 5
功 kanji
achievement, merits, success, honor, credit
- JLPT level
- N1 (unofficial)
- First appears in
- N3 vocabulary
- Strokes
- 5
- School grade
- Grade 4 (elementary school)
On readings
コウク
Kun readings
いさお
Words with 功
LevelWord & meaningActions
- —武功夜話Bukouyawa (chronicle covering the Warring States to Momoyama periods, probably bogus)
- —功利主義者utilitarian
- —文化功労者Person of Cultural Merit; honorary title recognizing outstanding cultural contributions
- —成功を望むto hope to succeed
- —怪我の功名fortunate error; lucky break; fluke
- —パス成功率pass completion (percentage)
- —功を奏するto succeed; to bear fruit
- —実行不成功unsuccessful execution
- —功罪相償うthe good and bad deeds cancel each other out; good deeds make up for the bad
- —年功序列制度the seniority system
- —成功を収めるto achieve success
- —国立成功大学National Cheng Kung University; NCKU
- —失敗は成功の母failure is the mother of success
- —失敗は成功のもとfailure teaches success; failure is a stepping-stone to success
- —亀の甲より年の功the older, the wiser
- —創意工夫功労者賞Prize for Creativity
- —労多くして功少なしall pain and no gain; lots of pain and not much gain
- —九仞の功を一簣に虧くto fail one step short of great success; to fall at the last hurdle
- —一将功成りて万骨枯るthousands die to make one hero; one general reaches glory, ten thousand bones are left to dry
- —一将功成って万骨枯るthousands die to make one hero; one general reaches glory, ten thousand bones are left to dry