Kanji奥
Readingおく
Frequency92%
Used in (63 in total)
inner part; interior; living quarters (at the back of a house); inner room; recesses (of one's mind); bottom (of one's heart)
wife; your wife; his wife; married lady; madam
wife; your wife; his wife; married lady; madam
back tooth; molar
profound; deep; deep (of a cave, etc.); innermost; interior
deep inside; innermost place
secret techniques (of an art or skill); inner mysteries; essence; quintessence; heart
depths; deep place; bottom (of one's heart)
lady; nobleman's wife
deep in the forest
deep in the mountains; mountain recesses
innermost depths of one's heart
ace up one's sleeve; trump card; secret skills; secret; (arch.) left hand
to lie deep in; to extend far back
interior; backwoods; hinterland; back regions
depth; length
late-growing rice; late-ripening crops; late-blooming flowers; late developer (e.g. child who reaches puberty late); late bloomer
inner garden; back yard
refined; elegant; graceful; modest; reserved; restrained
remote mountain; mountain recesses
inner palace (in Edo Castle); palace's ladies chambers; shogun's harem
lady of the house
inner sanctuary; inner shrine; sanctum sanctorum; holy of holies; place behind main hall of a temple enshrining temple founder, miraculous Buddhas, hidden statues, etc.
inner parlor; inner parlour; salon; living room
to play one's trump card
rear right (corner, etc.); on the right and at the end; right-hand side and at the back
colophon (at the end of a book); imprint; publication information
deep; profound; complicated; advanced; impenetrable
left back (corner, etc.); on the left and at the rear; left-hand side and at the back
(admission to the) secrets of a discipline; esoterics of a discipline
rear shrine (located behind the main shrine, but dedicated to the same deity)
inner part of a house (near the kitchen, living room, etc.); family matters; household affairs; personal business
to beat around the bush; to not speak frankly; to talk in a roundabout way
young wife; young married woman
noble's private quarters
court physician (of the Shōgun and his household, Edo period)
area of the Edo castle where the shogun would work and spend his daily life
hidden double eyelid
family grave; ancestral grave; tomb
serving as maid in the domestic quarters of a shogun or daimyo (Edo period)
postscript (to a book); verification; publication (in a book)
rear shrine (located behind the main shrine, but dedicated to the same deity)
inner wall (e.g. cave); inner rockface (mountain valley, etc.)
secret; initiation; diploma
devotion to one's wife; doing things for one's wife
The Narrow Road to the Deep North (chronicle by Matsuo Basho, published in 1702)
secluded; innermost
La Princesse de Clèves (1678 novel by Madame de La Fayette)
true intention
relocation of wild animals to a remote location
depth; profundity
Okumura Corporation
official seal
maid working in the domestic quarters of a shogun or daimyo (Edo period)
maid working in the domestic quarters of a shogun or daimyo (Edo period)
graveyard; cemetery