興

Meaning

興 centers on the idea of something rising up or being stirred into action: entertainment and pleasure arise from lively engagement, while reviving and retrieving involve bringing something back up from a low state.

• 興味きょうみ
  N4

  interest (in something); curiosity (about something); zest (for)

• 興奮こうふん
  N2

  excitement; stimulation; agitation; arousal

• 復興ふっこう
  N2

  revival; reconstruction; restoration; rebuilding; recovery; renaissance

• 興味深いきょうみぶかい
  N2

  very interesting; of great interest

• 振興しんこう
  N1

  promotion; encouragement

• 新興しんこう
  N1

  rising; developing; emergent; burgeoning; new

• 興行こうぎょう

  show; performance; act

• 興きょう

  interest; entertainment; pleasure

• 即興そっきょう

  improvisation

• 興味津々きょうみしんしん

  very interesting; of absorbing interest; having a keen interest (in); being immensely curious (about)

• 余興よきょう
  N1

  performance (at a party or banquet, etc.); side show; entertainment

• 再興さいこう

  revival; restoration; resuscitation

• 吉本興業よしもとこうぎょう

  Yoshimoto Kogyo

• 興業こうぎょう
  N1

  promotion of industry; inauguration of a new industrial enterprise

• 興信所こうしんじょ

  detective agency; enquiry agency

• 興すおこす
  N1

  to vitalize (e.g. an industry); to invigorate; to energize; to revive; to promote; to make prosperous

• 興国こうこく

  making a country prosperous; prosperous country

• 興ずるきょうずる

  to amuse oneself; to make merry

• 一興いっきょう

  amusement; fun; brief entertainment

• 興じるきょうじる
  N1

  to amuse oneself; to make merry

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