The kanji 功: meaning, readings and stroke order
功
- Meaning
- merit, success
- On reading
- コウ kou、ク* ku
- Kun reading
- —
- Strokes
- 5
- Radical
- 力 power, force
- Level
- Level 4 · grade 4
Stroke order
Meaning in other languages
- Vietnamese
- công lao, thành tích (công)
- Japanese
- てがら。よい けっか。
- Korean
- 공, 공로 (공)
- Chinese
- 功劳、成功
Readings, words and example sentences
コウ kou · on reading
成功
success
理科の 実験が 成功しました。
Our science experiment worked.
* marks a less common reading, usually learnt from junior high on.
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Readings, radicals: Kanjium, KANJIDIC2 (CC BY-SA 4.0); strokes: KanjiVG (CC BY-SA 3.0); Korean, simplified forms: Unicode Unihan. Meanings, sentences: Dino Kids (CC0). See Licences.