奥

奥 (奥, X5965) is Unicode character number 22885, KanjiLiberal.

In Japanese, 奥 can be pronounced "oku" and mean back, deep, inside.

奥 by jitenon

奥,奧,嶴

Character 奥 looks similar to other characters. In order to avoid confusions, some programming is necessary.

The encoding of the similar characters can be revealed with PHP program du.t

Command

php du.t 奥奧嶴

returns the following output:

奥奧嶴
The array has 9 bytes; here is its splitting:
e5 a5 a5 e5 a5 a7 e5 b6 b4
array(3) {
  [0]=>
  string(3) "奥"
  [1]=>
  string(3) "奧"
  [2]=>
  string(3) "嶴"
}

Unicode character number 22885 id est, X5965
Picture: 奥 ; uses 3 bytes. These bytes are:
XE5 XA5 XA5 in the hexadecimal representation and
229 165 165 in the decimal representation

Unicode character number 22887 id est, X5967
Picture: 奧 ; uses 3 bytes. These bytes are:
XE5 XA5 XA7 in the hexadecimal representation and
229 165 167 in the decimal representation

Unicode character number 23988 id est, X5DB4
Picture: 嶴 ; uses 3 bytes. These bytes are:
XE5 XB6 XB4 in the hexadecimal representation and
229 182 180 in the decimal representation

Graphic

奥 looks as overlapping of the following characters:

', (prime ' X0027),

冂 (冂 X5182),

米 (米 X7C73),

⼤ (⼤ X2F24) or 大 (大 X5927)

Phonetic

Usually, 奥 is pronounced as

おく, oku

Sometimes, it is pronounced also

まる , maru

くま, kuma

オウ , ou

Semantic

奥 may mean back, deep, inside, profound, inner part, bottom, heart

奥 can be considered as extreme case of 中.

Examples

奥深 , profound

お尻の奥深く , Deep in the butt (Глубоко в заднице)

Jisho

https://jisho.org/search/%23kanji%20奥

Kun: おく、 おく.まる、 くま

On: オウ

On reading compounds
奥地 【オクチ】 interior, backwoods, hinterland, back regions
奥義 【オウギ】 secret techniques (of an art or skill), inner mysteries, essence, quintessence, heart
最奥 【サイオウ】 deep inside, innermost place
内奥 【ナイオウ】 inner part, depths

Kun reading compounds
奥 【おく】 inner part, inside, interior, depths (e.g. of a forest), back (of a house, drawer, etc.), bottom (e.g. of one's heart), recesses, heart
奥地 【おくち】 interior, backwoods, hinterland, back regions
山奥 【やまおく】 deep in the mountains, mountain recesses
大奥 【おおおく】 inner palace (in Edo Castle), palace's ladies chambers, shogun's harem
奥まる 【おくまる】 to lie deep in, to extend far back

Nihongomaster

https://www.nihongomaster.com/dictionary/entry/16852/oku

心の奥から魂の叫びが問いかける。 Calling to me inside of my heart.

あお向けに寝ると、舌やノドチンコがノドの奥に下がるため、上気道が塞がりやすくなります。 If you sleep on your back it's easier for your upper airway to be obstructed because your tongue, uvula, etc. slip towards the back of your throat.

彼の目はめがねの奥で笑っていた。 His eyes were smiling behind his glasses.

彼らはレストランの奥の方に座った。 The group was seated in the back of the restaurant.

彼は建物の奥に行ってみました。 He went to the back of the building.

この公園の西側に近いところは、道路の騒音も大きいが、奥にはいるともう聞こえない。 Near the west side of the park there's a lot of noise from the road, but when you go into the park you can't hear it any more.

心の奥からわきあがる。 I've got a feeling.

面疔ができた。小鼻の奥に1個、痛い塊がある。 I have a facial boil. There's a painful lump at the back of one nostril.

彼は店の奥の暗い隅に姿を消した。 He disappeared into a dark corner at the back of the shop.

部屋の奥の壁の中央に大きな窓がある。 In the middle of the wall at the back of the room is a large window.

References

https://glyphwiki.org/wiki/u5965 .. フリーグリフデータベース『グリフウィキ(GlyphWiki)』 u5965-j のエイリアス（別名）

https://www.compart.com/en/unicode/U+5967 Unicode Character “奧” (U+5967) 奧 Name: CJK Unified Ideograph-5967[1] Unicode Version: 1.1 (June 1993)[2] Block: CJK Unified Ideographs, U+4E00 - U+9FFF[3] Plane: Basic Multilingual Plane, U+0000 - U+FFFF[3] Script: Han (Hanzi, Kanji, Hanja) (Hani) [4] Category: Other Letter (Lo) [1] Bidirectional Class: Left To Right (L) [1] Combining Class: Not Reordered (0) [1] Character is Mirrored: No [1] HTML Entity: 奧 奧

Keywords

du.t, Japanese, Kanji, KanjiLiberal, PHP, X5965 (奥), X5967 (奧), X5DB4 (嶴)