興 hanja, meaning thrive, read 흥 (heung)
Reading
thrive, prosper, flourish
일 흥il heung
Every hanja has a two-part name in Korean: what it means, then how it's read. Here 일 (il) is the Korean for thrive, and 흥 (heung) is the reading. Say 일 흥 out loud and a Korean speaker knows which character you mean.
- Strokes
- 16
- Radical
- ⾅ 134
- Beyond radical
- 9
- Mandarin
- xìng
- Japanese on
- kyou
- Japanese kun
- okoru
Vocabulary
Words that use 興
Tap one to see what it means and how it's built. Every character in these words has its own page here.
entertainment, a performance
Character by character thrive + go
Character data from the Unicode Unihan database. Korean reading, 훈음 and vocabulary from the libhangul hanja dictionary by Choe Hwanjin (BSD 3-Clause). English translations of whole words from kengdic (MPL 2.0 / LGPL 2.0+), a community dictionary — the occasional entry is wrong.Levels are derived, not official — they are not 한자능력검정시험 급수. The ordering combines Unihan’s kGradeLevel (the school year a character is introduced in Hong Kong, present on 1,539 of the 1,800), total stroke count, and how many national standards treat the character as core.