Craft or Engineering
February 19, 2010
by Nao
kō, ku
This character implies activity that involves making something. In other words, roughly it means craft and engineering. Compounds including this character relate to these meanings.
Craft
Kōsaku means making, constructing, and maneuvering. It also implies handcraft, a school subject.
Creators devise good ways to make something. Such an activity is called kuhū. Add the suffix “–suru” to change it to a verb.
Saiku is work that you produce. Sai means minute. Saiku becomes zaiku with a voiced sound if you add something before the word. Takezaiku is bamboo work.
This character sometimes means a worker or an artisan. For example, daiku is a carpenter.
Engineering
Once we have mentioned the word kōgaku here. It means engineering as an academic subject. Artificial is Jinkō. Industry is kōgyō, of which the gyō means a business. A factory is kōjō or kōba. Both jō and ba is the same character meaning a field or a place.
The first stroke is the upper horizontal line. The second one is the vertical stroke. The lower horizontal line is longer than the first one.
