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
- —方向指示器direction indicator; traffic indicator; turn signal
- —順方向電圧forward voltage (e.g. of a semiconductor)
- —真っ向勝負head-on fight; direct confrontation; head-to-head contest
- —有向グラフdirected graph; digraph
- —無向グラフundirected graph; non-directed graph
- —方向ボタンdirectional button (on a controller); d-pad button
- —あらぬ方向wrong direction; different direction (from what one expected)
- —前向性健忘anterograde amnesia
- —逆向性健忘retrograde amnesia
- —デフレ傾向deflationary trend
- —趣向を凝らすto devise an elaborate plan; to exercise one's ingenuity; to work out a scheme
- —インフレ傾向inflationary trend; inflationary tendency
- —イオン化傾向ionization tendency; ionisation tendency
- —景気動向指数diffusion index; DI
- —双方向テレビinteractive television
- —限界消費性向marginal propensity to consume
- —限界貯蓄性向marginal propensity to save
- —平均消費性向average propensity to consume
- —平均貯蓄性向average propensity to save
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