Onyomi: ク, コウ · Kunyomi: いさお · Meanings: achievement, credit, honor, merits, success
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| Word | Reading | Meaning | Meta |
|---|---|---|---|
| 功 | こう | merit, success, meritorious deed | Noun |
| 労り | いたわり | sympathy, consideration, carefulness, attention | Noun, Noun which may take the genitive case particle 'no' |
| 勲 | いさお | distinguished service, meritorious service | Noun |
| 工夫 | くふう | devising (a way), contriving, inventing, thinking up, figuring out, coming up with, working out | common JLPT-N2 Noun, Suru verb, Transitive verb |
| 功績 | こうせき | achievement, meritorious deed, distinguished service, contribution | common JLPT-N2 Noun |
| 効能 | こうのう | effect, effectiveness, efficacy, virtue, benefit | common Noun |
| 功名 | こうみょう | great achievement, glorious deed, (gaining) fame, (earning) distinction | Noun |
| 功労 | こうろう | meritorious deed, services | common Noun |
| 巧者 | こうしゃ | cleverness, skill, tact | Na-adjective (keiyodoshi), Noun |
| 功罪 | こうざい | merits and demerits, good points and bad points, strengths and weaknesses | Noun |
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