奥

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

• 𬤡, 𬸩, 𥨩

• Kangxi Dictionary: 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

This character is the Xin Zixing of 奧 in mainland China in use since 1965.

(Jōyō kanji, shinjitai kanji, kyūjitai form 奧)

• Go-on: おう (ō, Jōyō)^{←あう (au, historical)}、おく (oku)^{←をく (woku, historical)}
• Kan-on: いく (iku)^{←ゐく (wiku, historical)}、おう (ō, Jōyō)^{←あう (au, historical)}
• Kan’yō-on: おく (oku)^{←をく (woku, historical)}
• Kun: おく (oku, 奥, Jōyō)、おくまる (okumaru, 奥まる)
• Nanori: くま (kuma)、おお (ō)、おん (on)、つ (tsu)、のく (noku)

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]

• (Tokyo) おく [óꜜkù] (Atamadaka – [1])^[2][3][4]
• IPA^(key): [o̞kɯ̟]

奥(おく) • (oku) 

1. inside; inner depths

   Antonym: 手前 (temae)

   施設(しせつ)の奥(おく)にある

   shisetsu no oku ni aru

   located deep within the facility

   写真(しゃしん)の奥(おく)に写(うつ)っている

   shashin no oku ni utsutteiru

   appearing in the background of the photo

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

奥(おく) • (Oku) 

1. a surname

奥(おう) • (ō) 

1. (historical) clipping of 陸奥国 (Mutsu no kuni): Mutsu Province

   Synonym: 奥州 (Ōshū)

   奥(おう)羽(う)

   Ōu

   Ōu: the two former provinces of Mutsu and Dewa), Tōhoku

奥 (eumhun 깊을 오 (gipeul o))

1. alternative form of 奧 (“hanja form^? of 오 (“deep”)”)

奥 (eumhun 따뜻할 욱 (ttatteuthal uk))

1. alternative form of 燠

• Naver Hanja Dictionary: 奥

奥: Nôm readings: áo

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