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
- —時計方向clockwise direction
- —経済性向上more economical
- —指向性爆薬shaped charge
- —方向探知機direction finder
- —方向を指すto point to a direction
- —双方向番組interactive program; interactive programme
- —拇指対向性ability to oppose the thumb; opposable thumb
- —消費者志向consumer-orientation
- —真っ向からhead-on; to one's face; squarely; directly; flatly (e.g. refuse)
- —データ傾向data trend; data tendency
- —行進行方向line progression
- —線進行方向line progression
- —双方向印刷bidirectional printing
- —双方向通信two-way communication; bidirectional communication
- —多方向展開multicasting
- —単方向通信simplex communication
- —単方向伝送simplex transmission
- —片方向通信one-way communication
- —両方向印刷bidirectional printing
- —方向付けるto direct; to guide; to orient; to orientate; to align