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
- —風向計anemoscope
- —双方向two-way; bidirectional; interactive
- —両方向two directions; both directions; two-way; bidirectional
- —長方向longitudinal direction
- —逆方向the opposite direction; the other way
- —行方向line writing direction
- —字方向character writing direction
- —単方向simplex
- —方向性direction; trend; course (of action); directionality; directivity; orientation; goal; aim
- —回向文closing recital that transfers the merit of the service to a buddha, a bodhisattva, or the dead
- —志向性intentionality
- —方向角direction angle
- —外向的extroverted; outgoing
- —転向者convert (e.g. to a cause)
- —順向性proactive
- —配向性orientation
- —一向宗Ikkō sect (of Buddhism); Jōdo Shinshū; True Pure Land School
- —縦方向longitudinal direction; vertical direction; portrait orientation
- —一方向one direction; unidirectional; non-interactive
- —意向形volitional form (of a Japanese verb)