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奥 kanji
heart, interior
- JLPT level
- N2 (unofficial)
- First appears in
- N5 vocabulary
- Strokes
- 12
- School grade
- Secondary school
On readings
オウ
Kun readings
おくおくまるくま
Variant forms
奧嶴Words with 奥
LevelWord & meaningActions
- —奥義secret techniques (of an art or skill); inner mysteries; essence; quintessence; heart
- —奥旨deep truth; deep knowledge
- —奥妙secret
- —胸奥one's heart of hearts; the depths of one's mind
- —深奥depths (of an art, one's mind, etc.); heart; inner mysteries; profound; deep; esoteric; abstruse
- —内奥recesses (of one's mind, heart, etc.); depths; innermost parts
- —秘奥secrets; mysteries
- —堂奥secret knowledge; interior of a temple
- —蘊奥inner mysteries (of a field of study); secrets
- —最奥deep inside; innermost place
- —陸奥Rikuō (former province located in parts of present-day Aomori and Iwate prefectures)
- —奥羽Ōu (the two former provinces of Mutsu and Dewa); Tōhoku
- —奥州Ōshū (alternative name of the former Mutsu province)
- —奥義書esoteric writings; Upanishad (sacred Hindu treatises)
- —奥陶紀Ordovician period
- —奥義秘伝secrets; mysteries; secret formula; essence; esoterica (of an art, martial arts, etc.)
- —奥羽大学Ohu University
- —奥儀secret techniques (of an art or skill); inner mysteries; essence; quintessence; heart
- —奥技secret techniques (of an art or skill); inner mysteries; essence; quintessence; heart