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
- —大往生を遂げるto die peacefully; to have lived a full life
- —弁慶の立ち往生situation in which one can move neither forward nor backward; Benkei's last stand
- —已往before; prior to
- —一往more or less; though not quite satisfactorily; after a fashion; pretty much; roughly; so far as it goes; technically; tentatively; for the time being; just in case; once
- —往往sometimes; often
- —立往生being brought to a standstill; being stranded; getting stuck; stalling; deadlock; being stumped; being in a dilemma; stopping in one's tracks; standing speechless; dying while standing (and remaining standing); dying on one's feet
- —往復葉書postcard with a reply card attached
- —往事茫茫memories of the past events (being, becoming) far and distant
- —往往にしてsometimes; occasionally; now and then; from time to time
- —往復びんたdouble slap in the face; forehand and backhand slap
- —弁慶の立往生situation in which one can move neither forward nor backward; Benkei's last stand
- —往生際がわるいnot knowing when to give up; being a bad loser
- —往生際のわるいunreasonably stubborn; not knowing when to give up