# 奥

| 奥 | U+5965, &#22885; CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-5965 |
| ← 奤 [U+5964] | CJK Unified Ideographs | 奦 → [U+5966] |

## Translingual

| Japanese | 奥 |
| Simplified | 奥 |
| Traditional | 奧 |

### Han character

奥 (Kangxi radical 37, 大+9, 12 strokes, cangjie input 竹月大 (HBK) or 難竹月大 (XHBK), composition ⿱⿵⿱丿冂米大)

#### Derived characters

* 𬤡, 𬸩, 𥨩

### Further reading

* Kangxi Dictionary: not present, would follow page 253, character 15
* Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 5981
* Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 1, page 545, character 7
* Unihan data for U+5965

## Chinese

* For pronunciation and definitions of 奥 – see 奧 (“southwest corner of a room; depths of a room; etc.”). (This character is the simplified and variant form of 奧).
* Notes:Simplified Chinese is mainly used in Mainland China, Malaysia, and Singapore.Traditional Chinese is mainly used in Hong Kong, Macau, and Taiwan.

### Usage notes

This character is the Xin Zixing of 奧 in mainland China in use since 1965.

## Japanese

| Shinjitai | 奥 |
| Kyūjitai | 奧 |

### Kanji

(Jōyō kanji, shinjitai kanji, kyūjitai form 奧)

#### Readings

* Go-on: おう (ō, Jōyō)、おく (oku)
* Kan-on: いく (iku)、おう (ō, Jōyō)
* Kan’yō-on: おく (oku)
* Kun: おく (oku, 奥, Jōyō)、おくまる (okumaru, 奥まる)
* Nanori: くま (kuma)、おお (ō)、おん (on)、つ (tsu)、のく (noku)

### Etymology

* Kanji in this term
* 奥
* おく Grade: S
* kun'yomi
* Alternative spelling
* 奧 (kyūjitai)
Despite the apparent overlap with the modern goon reading of oku that is derived from Middle Chinese, this term is actually rooted in Old Japanese, appearing in the Man'yōshū collection of poetry dating to roughly 759 CE. Cognate with 沖 (oki, “the open sea, offshore”), originally in reference to “somewhere far removed, possibly out of sight”. While oki came to mean “far removed in the wide open → far off shore”, oku instead came to mean “far removed inside → inside, interior”.

### Pronunciation

* (Tokyo) おく [óꜜkù] (Atamadaka – [1])
* IPA: [o̞kɯ̟]

### Noun

奥(おく) • (oku)
* inside; inner depths
    施設(しせつ)の奥(おく)にある
       shisetsu no oku ni aru
       located deep within the facility
    写真(しゃしん)の奥(おく)に写(うつ)っている
       shashin no oku ni utsutteiru
       appearing in the background of the photo
* back, rear
* inside the house
* one's heart, true feelings

#### Derived terms

* 奥(おく)まる (okumaru): to have a deep recess, to be deeply recessed, to have a deep interior

### Proper noun

奥(おく) • (Oku)
* a surname

### References

* ↑ Shōgaku Tosho (1988) 国語大辞典（新装版） [Unabridged Dictionary of Japanese (Revised Edition)] (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Shogakukan, →ISBN
* ↑ Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 [Daijirin] (in Japanese), Third edition, Tokyo: Sanseidō, →ISBN
* ↑ Kindaichi, Kyōsuke et al., editors (1997), 新明解国語辞典 [Shin Meikai Kokugo Jiten] (in Japanese), Fifth edition, Tokyo: Sanseidō, →ISBN
* ↑ NHK Broadcasting Culture Research Institute, editor (1998), NHK日本語発音アクセント辞典 [NHK Japanese Pronunciation Accent Dictionary] (in Japanese), Tokyo: NHK Publishing, Inc., →ISBN

## Korean
### Hanja

奥 (eumhun 깊을 오 (gipeul o))
* Alternative form of 奧 (“hanja form of 오 (“deep”)”).

### Hanja

奥 (eumhun 따뜻할 욱 (ttatteuthal uk))
* Alternative form of 燠.

### References

* Naver Hanja Dictionary: 奥

## Vietnamese
### Han character

奥: Nôm readings: áo
* This term needs a translation to English. Please help out and add a translation, then remove the text {{rfdef}}.

### References

* Nom Foundation