The kanji 酵: meaning, readings and stroke order
酵
- Meaning
- ferment, yeast
- On reading
- コウ kou
- Kun reading
- —
- Strokes
- 14
- Radical
- 酉 wine, alcohol
- Level
- Level 8 · the last years of junior high
Stroke order
Meaning in other languages
- Vietnamese
- men, lên men (diếu)
- Japanese
- はっこう。こうじや こうぼの はたらき。
- Korean
- 발효, 효모 (효)
- Chinese
- 发酵、酵母
Readings, words and example sentences
コウ kou · on reading · less common
発酵
fermentation
パンの 生地を 発酵させます。
We let the bread dough ferment.
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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.