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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
- —動向把握grasping the trend; firmly understanding how the situation is developing; getting a good sense of how things are changing
- —離村傾向trend to move away from rural areas; rural depopulation
- —向上進化anagenesis
- —進行方向direction of travel; direction of movement
- —顧客志向customer-orientation
- —定向進化orthogenesis
- —パス指向path-oriented; connection-oriented
- —照射方向light source direction
- —水平方向horizontal direction
- —双方向性bidirectionality; interactivity
- —対向循環counter-rotating
- —表記方向writing mode
- —偏向関係bias relation
- —偏向抄録selective abstract; slanted abstract
- —方向キーcursor key
- —性的指向sexual orientation
- —上昇志向desire for improvement (in social standing, etc.); ambition to rise in the world
- —方向余弦direction cosine
- —方向付けdirecting; orienting; orientating; guiding; aligning
- —方向係数direction coefficient