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Wife Core Radical Drops Rice 奥 オウ おく、おく.まる、くま

Kanji
Onyomi オウ
Kunyomi おく、おく.まる、くま
Nanori お, おお, おん, つ, のく
English heart, interior
Examples 奥(おく): interior; inner part; inside
奥さん(おくさん): wife; your wife; his wife; married lady; madam
JLPT Level 2
Jouyou Grade S
Frequency 1018
Components 丿: katakana no radical (no. 4)
冂: upside-down box radical (no. 13)
米: rice; USA; metre
大: large; big
Number of Strokes 12
Kanji Radical
Radical Number 37
Radical Strokes 3
Radical Reading だい・おおきい
Traditional Form
Classification 会意 Compound Ideographic
Keyword core
Koohii Story 1 In the core of a nuclear reactor, scientists have discovered a way to get power from rice, by penting it in under high pressure. It´s very dangerous, so they´ve trained a st. bernard dog to run things, he´s adding more drops of rice as necessary.
Koohii Story 2 奥さん (おくさん) is a common way to say "wife". In the innermost core of the house, the bored pent up housewife drops her chores and consumes so much rice she becomes a very large housewife.
RTK Index 928

Tags: jlpt.n2, grades, kanjifreq1001-1500, kanji_directions

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