奥

See also: 奧
奥 U+5965, 奥
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-5965
← 奤
[U+5964] 		CJK Unified Ideographs 奦 →
[U+5966]

Translingual
Japanese 奥
Simplified 奥
Traditional 奧

Han character

奥 (Kangxi radical 37, 大+9, 12 strokes, cangjie input 竹月大 (HBK) or X竹月大 (XHBK), composition ⿱⿵⿱丿冂米大)

Further reading
  • KangXi: not present, would follow page 253, character 15
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 5981
  • Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 1, page 545, character 7
  • Unihan data for U+5965

Chinese
For pronunciation and definitions of 奥 – see 奧 (“southwest corner of a room; depths of a room; etc.”).
(This character, 奥, is the simplified and variant form of 奧.)
Notes:

Japanese

Shinjitai

 奥

Kyūjitai

 奧

Kanji
奥

(common “Jōyō” kanji, shinjitai kanji, kyūjitai form 奧)

Readings

Etymology
Kanji in this term
奥
おく
Grade: S
kun’yomi
Alternative spelling
奧 (kyūjitai)

Despite the apparent overlap with the modern goon reading of oku that is derived from Middle Chinese, this term is actually rooted in Old Japanese, appearing in the Man'yōshū collection of poetry dating to roughly 759 CE. Cognate with 沖 (oki, “the open sea, offshore”), originally in reference to “somewhere far removed, possibly out of sight”. While oki came to mean “far removed in the wide open → far off shore”, oku instead came to mean “far removed inside → inside, interior”.[1]

Pronunciation

Noun

奥(おく) • (oku) 

  1. inside; inner depths
  2. back, rear
  3. inside the house
  4. one's heart, true feelings

Derived terms
Derived terms
  • 奥(おく)まる (okumaru): to have a deep recess, to be deeply recessed, to have a deep interior

Proper noun

奥(おく) • (Oku) 

  1. a surname

References
  1. 1988, 国語大辞典（新装版） (Kokugo Dai Jiten, Revised Edition) (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Shogakukan
  2. 2006, 大辞林 (Daijirin), Third Edition (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN
  3. 1997, 新明解国語辞典 (Shin Meikai Kokugo Jiten), Fifth Edition (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN

Korean

Hanja

奥 (eumhun 깊을 오 (gipeul o))

  1. Alternative form of 奧 (“Hanja form? of 오 (“deep”).”).

Hanja

奥 (eumhun 따뜻할 욱 (ttatteuthal uk))

  1. Alternative form of 燠.

References

Vietnamese

Han character

奥: Nôm readings: áo

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References
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