Entry
  1. Na-adjective (keiyodoshi), Noun

    kill-joy; wet-blanket; spoiling the fun

Also written 興醒まし【きょうざまし】興醒し【きょうざまし】

Pitch on OJAD

Characters in this word

1
Strokes: KanjiVG, CC BY-SA 3.0

entertain, revive, retrieve, interest, pleasure

Kun
おこ.るおこ.す
On
コウキョウ
Strokes
16
Taught
Grade 5
JLPT
N1
Frequency
734 of 2500
Radical
mortar
WaniKani
Level 32

Built from

Used in names as

おきおこっとも

Dictionary and index codes (33)
CodeReference
2-14-2SKIP code
2o14.2The Kanji Dictionary
7780.1Four corner code
2661deroo
8208Unicode hex code
1-22-29JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
615Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
4913New Nelson (John Haig)
2909New Japanese-English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
3622Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1852Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
2525Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
1426Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
1533Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
695A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
2586Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
338Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
30226Morohashi
652A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
368Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
369Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
589sakade
1687Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
702henshall3
814Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
490crowley
631Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
158Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
1438Les Kanjis dans la tête (Yves Maniette)
xing1, xing4Pinyin reading
heungKorean reading
n1JLPT level (KANJIDIC2)
32WaniKani level