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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
- —走向strike; direction
- —向顔meeting face-to-face; seeing in person
- —向学desire for learning; love of learning
- —単向simplex; unidirectional
- —向点apex
- —外向性extroversion
- —向学心love of learning; desire to learn; passion for knowledge
- —向上心ambition; aspiration; desire to improve oneself
- —向心力centripetal force
- —向地性the nature of plants to grow down and root; geotropism
- —上向線upswing
- —動向表In-Out Board (in office)
- —内向性introversion
- —偏向板deflection plate
- —向日性heliotropism; actinotropism; disposition (in flowers) to turn toward the sun; phototropism
- —向米的pro-American
- —対向車car (running) on the opposite lane; oncoming car; oncoming traffic
- —方向舵rudder
- —指向性directivity; directionality; intentionality
- —向光性heliotropism