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
- —振興局promotion bureau; development office; subprefectural office (in Hokkaido)
- —復興税reconstruction tax
- —興行場show place; entertainment venue; entertainment facility
- —興業銀行industrial bank
- —経済復興economic revitalization; economic revitalisation; rebuilding of an economy
- —中興の祖restorer of a dynasty; ancestor who rejuvenated a family
- —文芸復興Renaissance
- —新興宗教new religion
- —引退興行farewell performance
- —興行成績box-office record
- —新興企業start-up company
- —治乱興亡nation's times of peace and war, rise and fall
- —興奮気味being somewhat excited (agitated)
- —興亡盛衰rise and fall; prosperity and decline; vicissitudes
- —盛衰興亡rise and fall; ups and downs; waxing and waning; prosperity and decline; vicissitudes
- —追善興行memorial performance; performance in memory of someone
- —新興財閥new zaibatsu (formed after the Meiji period)
- —興行収入box-office takings; box-office revenue
- —性的興奮sexual arousal; sexual excitation
- —興奮状態excited condition; excited state