漢字城 Kanji Fortress

奥 interior

Also: deep

On'yomi
オウ
Kun'yomi
おく
Strokes
12
JLPT
N4
Taught in
Secondary school

Stroke order

  1. 1
  2. 2
  3. 3
  4. 4
  5. 5
  6. 6
  7. 7
  8. 8
  9. 9
  10. 10
  11. 11
  12. 12
奥 is written in 12 strokes. Each panel adds the next one; the dot marks where the brush starts.

Remember it

Under a sloping eave 丿, inside the walled enclosure 冂, sacks of rice 米 are stacked with the biggest 大 pile shoved all the way at the back — the deep interior of the storehouse.

A common word

  • 奥さん おくさん wife (polite)

Example sentences

  • やまのおくにちいさいむらがあります。

    There is a small village deep in the mountains.

  • このへやのおくにちちのつくえがあります。

    My father's desk is at the back of this room.

Kanji that share a part

丿 is its radical. 62 kanji share it in all.

冂 is a component. 11 kanji share it in all.