Japanese word
奥
おく
In your course · Chapter 16
- Part of speech
- noun
- Level
- A2
- Frequency
- No. 576 in the course corpus
Meanings
- back; inner part
- inner part
- interior
- back (of a drawer, one's throat, etc.)
- depths (e.g. of a forest)
- recesses (e.g. of a cave)
- heart
- end (of a road, garden, etc.)
- living quarters (at the back of a house)
- inner room
- recesses (of one's mind)
- bottom (of one's heart)
- behind (someone's words)
- mysteries (of an art)
- wife (of a person of high status)
Source: Tonada course · JMdict (CC BY-SA 4.0 (EDRDG Licence))
Kanji
- 奥
- On reading:
- オウ
- Kun reading:
- おく、おく.まる、くま
- Meanings:
- heart, interior
Source: KANJIDIC2 (CC BY-SA 4.0 (EDRDG Licence))