Kanji1 / 8
往 kanji
journey, travel, chase away, let go, going, before, formerly
- JLPT level
- N1 (unofficial)
- First appears in
- N2 vocabulary
- Strokes
- 8
- School grade
- Grade 5 (elementary school)
On readings
オウ
Kun readings
いくいにしえさきにゆく
Variant forms
徃Words with 往
LevelWord & meaningActions
- —勇往spirited advance; energetically going forward
- —往々sometimes; often
- —独往going on one's own or one's own way
- —往古ancient times
- —既往the past
- —往代ancient times; times of old; time long since passed
- —往者person going (away); past
- —往査site visit (auditors, public accountants, etc.)
- —往生際brink of death; time to give up; knowing when to give up
- —大往生peaceful death
- —既往歴case history; medical history; anamnesis
- —往来物ōraimono; type of elementary school textbook, used from late Heian to early Meiji periods
- —古往今来in all ages; since antiquity
- —直往邁進push boldly forward
- —勇往邁進dash and go; pushing forward
- —無理往生forced compliance; coercion; compulsion
- —極楽往生rebirth in paradise; peaceful death
- —往古よりfrom times immemorial; from ancient times
- —往復機関reciprocating engine
- —往事渺茫memories of the past events (being, becoming) far and distant