Kanji1 / 6
向 kanji
yonder, facing, beyond, confront, defy, tend toward, approach
- JLPT level
- N3 (unofficial)
- First appears in
- N5 vocabulary
- Strokes
- 6
- School grade
- Grade 3 (elementary school)
On readings
コウ
Kun readings
むくむい-むきむける-むけむかうむかいむこうむこう-むこむかい
Words with 向
LevelWord & meaningActions
- —向寒approach of winter; approaching the coldest time of the year
- —向後hereafter
- —向暑approach of the hot season; approaching the hottest time of the year
- —向背one's attitude (toward); one's position; support or opposition; state of affairs; situation; developments
- —向米pro-American
- —参向proceeding to
- —指向being orientated (towards); pointing (towards); directing (towards); directional (e.g. microphone); -oriented
- —上向upturn
- —回向memorial service; prayers for the repose of the soul; transfer of merit
- —風向wind direction
- —発向departure for a specified destination
- —趨向tendency; trend; current
- —向性tropism
- —向格allative
- —順向proactive
- —向拝pent roof built atop the stairs of a shrine or temple
- —配向orientation
- —向日anthelion (optical phenomenon)
- —有向directed; oriented
- —向軸adaxial; ventral