Japanese word
方向
ほうこう
In your course · Chapter 23
- Part of speech
- noun
- Level
- B1
- Frequency
- No. 528 in the course corpus
Meanings
- direction
- orientation
- bearing
- way
- course (e.g. of action)
Source: Tonada course · JMdict (CC BY-SA 4.0 (EDRDG Licence))
Kanji
- 方
- On reading:
- ホウ
- Kun reading:
- -かた、-がた、かた
- Meanings:
- direction, person, alternative
- 向
- On reading:
- コウ
- Kun reading:
- -む.き、-む.け、む.い、む.かい、む.かう、む.く、む.ける、む.こう、む.こう-、むか.い、むこ
- Meanings:
- yonder, facing, beyond, confront, defy, tend toward, approach
Source: KANJIDIC2 (CC BY-SA 4.0 (EDRDG Licence))