Kanji N2

況: condition, situation

況 is a JLPT N2 kanji meaning condition, situation, written with 8 strokes. It is read キョウ (on) and まして, いわんや, おもむき (kun). It is one of the jōyō kanji taught in secondary school. You will see it in 状況 (じょうきょう, state of affairs) and 不況 (ふきょう, depression).

況

Meanings

  • condition
  • situation
Strokes8
JLPT levelN2
School gradeSecondary school
Frequency#490 of 2,500

On reading · Kun reading

On reading
  • キョウ

On'yomi: from Chinese, written in katakana. Used in compound words.

Kun reading
  • まして
  • いわんや
  • おもむき

Kun'yomi: native Japanese, in hiragana. The faint part is the okurigana, written in kana after the kanji.

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Common words with 況

The most useful words written with it, easiest first. Every other kanji in them opens its own page.

  • 状況じょうきょう

    state of affairs; situation; conditions

    JLPT N3
  • 不況ふきょう

    (economic) depression; recession; slump

    JLPT N1
  • 好況こうきょう

    prosperous (economic) conditions

    JLPT N1
  • 況してまして

    still more; to say nothing of; not to mention

    JLPT N1
  • 市況しきょう

    market conditions

  • 実況じっきょう

    actual state (of things); actual conditions

  • 活況かっきょう

    activity; briskness; prosperity

  • 現況げんきょう

    present condition

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Stroke order from KanjiVG © Ulrich Apel, CC BY-SA 3.0. Readings, meanings and words from KANJIDIC2 and JMdict, names from JMnedict, © EDRDG, CC BY-SA 4.0, and Wikidata, CC0; the Spanish meanings they lack, translated by Naraio from their English, are shared under the same licence. Example sentences from Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR. JLPT lists after Jonathan Waller (tanos.co.uk), CC BY. Sentences split into words with IPADIC © NAIST and IPA, through Lindera.