Keyword
vitalize
- entertain
- revive
- retrieve
- interest
- pleasure
- Frequency
- #734
- Strokes
- 16
- Grade
- 5
- JLPT (old)
- N1
- Heisig
- 1533
Readings
コウ57%
キョウ36%
おこ7%
Mnemonic
Give one cracked mortar with a hole some short legs and it tap-dances down the street; everyone does the same, and that's enough to vitalize the sleepy town.
Stroke order
Composed of
Used in vocabulary
興し
development; revitalization; standing (something) up; waking up; tilling a rice field; drawing a card from the draw pile
Suffix
興味津々
very interesting; of absorbing interest; having a keen interest (in); being immensely curious (about)
No-adjective
興す
to vitalize (e.g. an industry); to invigorate; to energize; to revive; to promote; to make prosperous; to establish (e.g. a company); to build up; to set up; to launch; …
Godan verb