EntryCommon
  1. Adverb (fukushi)

    as if; as it were; as though

    Usually written using kana aloneusu. as あたかものようだ, あたかものごとし, etc.

    彼はあたかも病気であったかのような顔つきをしていた。
    He looked as if he had been ill.
  2. right then; just then; at that moment

    Usually written using kana alone

Also written 宛も【あたかも】

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Characters in this word

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just as, as though, fortunately

Kun
あたか.も
On
コウカッチョウキョウ
Strokes
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Taught
Jinmeiyō
Radical
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Dictionary and index codes (16)
CodeReference
1-3-6SKIP code
4k6.10The Kanji Dictionary
9806.1Four corner code
6070Unicode hex code
1-19-70JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
1675Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
1838New Nelson (John Haig)
368New Japanese-English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
437Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
326Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
2281Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
2379Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
804Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
10603Morohashi
qia4Pinyin reading
heubKorean reading