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Entertain 興 コウ、キョウ おこ.る、おこ.す おき おこっ とも Revive

Kanji
Onyomi コウ、キョウ
Kunyomi おこ.る、おこ.す
Nanori おき, おこっ, とも
English entertain, revive, retrieve, interest, pleasure
Examples 興味(きょうみ): interest (in something)
振興(しんこう): promotion; encouragement
新興(しんこう): rising; developing; emergent
興奮(こうふん): excitement; stimulation; agitation; arousal
復興(ふっこう): revival; renaissance; reconstruction
興業(こうぎょう): industrial enterprise
興じる(きょうじる): to amuse oneself; to make merry
余興(よきょう): side show; entertainment
JLPT Level 1
Jouyou Grade 5
Frequency 734
Components 臼: mortar
同: same; agree; equal
八: eight; eight radical (no. 12)
Number of Strokes 16
Kanji Radical
Radical Number 134
Radical Strokes 6
Radical Reading うす
Traditional Form (none)
Classification 会意 Compound Ideographic
Keyword entertain
Koohii Story 1 To me, this looks like a pictograph of a road leading to the big city (see the buildings?) where there are plenty of places to be entertained. Unfortunately in this city, every store is the same: staples. What tools! [ayoung24].
Koohii Story 2 Photographically, this kanji simply looks like a set of two speakers (the staples primitives) between the sub-woofer (primitive for same) -- all this as a tool to entertain a group of drunks at a club.

Tags: jlpt.n1, grade5, kanjifreq501-750

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