Kanji1 / 16
興 kanji
entertain, revive, retrieve, interest, pleasure
- JLPT level
- N1 (unofficial)
- First appears in
- N4 vocabulary
- Strokes
- 16
- School grade
- Grade 5 (elementary school)
On readings
コウキョウ
Kun readings
おこるおこす
Words with 興
LevelWord & meaningActions
- —興産industry; industries
- —興収box-office takings; box-office revenue
- —興盛prosperity; flourishing; thriving
- —興新Kōshin (Japanese industrial machinery designer)
- —興行化turning (something) into a show; turning into a performance; adapting for the stage
- —興行師showman; show manager
- —興行主showman; impresario; promoter; producer
- —興信録credit-worthiness directory
- —興奮剤stimulant
- —昼興行matinee
- —新興国emerging market; emerging nation; emergent nation; developing country; developing nation
- —興行権promotional or production rights
- —旅興行touring show
- —興行界entertainment world
- —紹興酒Shaoxing wine
- —振興策promotional measure; stimulation measure (for the economy)
- —春興殿pavilion for weapons storage (in Heian Palace)
- —興奮薬stimulant drug
- —興奮性excitability; irritability
- —復興庁Reconstruction Agency (established after the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake)