Kanji1 / 10
翁 kanji
venerable old man
- JLPT level
- N1 (unofficial)
- Strokes
- 10
- School grade
- Secondary school
On readings
オウ
Kun readings
おきな
Words with 翁
LevelWord & meaningActions
- —老翁old man
- —村翁village elder
- —阿翁father-in-law (of a woman); grandfather
- —翁媼old man and old woman; elderly man and elderly woman
- —不倒翁tumbler; self-righting doll
- —白頭翁windflower; anemone; white-haired old man; grey starling (gray)
- —信天翁albatross
- —塞翁が馬the future is unpredictable; inscrutable are the ways of heaven; the irony of fate
- —人間万事塞翁が馬inscrutable are the ways of heaven; fortune is unpredictable and changeable