ホウコウ
Meanings
Noun
1. direction; orientation; bearing; way
2. course (e.g. of action)
Pitch accent
ウコウ
Used in vocabulary (46 in total)
trend; course of action; directionality; directivity; directional; vectorial
direction of movement (motion); direction of travel (esp. train)
the opposite direction; the other way
change of course
opposite direction
wrong direction; different direction (from what one expected)
(person with) no sense of direction; poor sense of locality
sense of orientation; sense of direction
one direction; unidirectional; non-interactive
lateral direction; horizontal direction; transverse direction; landscape orientation
two-way; bidirectional; interactive
horizontal direction
longitudinal direction; vertical direction; portrait orientation
directing; orienting; orientating; guiding; aligning
two directions; both directions; two-way; bidirectional
attacking direction
directional button; button with arrow(s) (on keypad, game controller, etc.)
direction finder
direction indicator; traffic indicator; turn signal
longer direction; longitudinal direction
light source direction
line writing direction
one-way communication
sense of direction
longitudinal direction
character writing direction
character base vector
direction angle
direction cosine
direction coefficient
forward voltage (e.g. of a semiconductor)
forward voltage drop (e.g. in a semiconductor)
perpendicular direction; lengthwise direction
Examples (21 in total)
I ran in the direction of the sun.
I went in the direction my friend indicated.
Which direction did he go?