— entertain, revive, retrieve, interest, pleasure

  • JLPT N1
  • 16 strokes
  • Grade 5
  • Radical 臼
  • #734 most frequent

Readings

On'yomi
コウキョウ
Kun'yomi
おこ.るおこ.す

Example words

  • 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