Japanese symbol for “quantifying”
衡量
こうりょう
Romaji: kouryou
weighing; measuring volume; quantifying
In Japanese, quantifying is 衡量, read こうりょう (kouryou).
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Meanings
- n, vs weighing; measuring volume; quantifying
Kanji and stroke order
Related words
Words that share a kanji.
| Word | Reading | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 均衡 | きんこう kinkou | balance; equilibrium |
| 平衡 | へいこう heikou | balance; equilibrium |
| 合従連衡 | がっしょうれんこう gasshourenkou | alliance (of the Six Kingdoms against the Qin dynasty, and of individual Kingdoms with the Qin dynasty) |
| 不均衡 | ふきんこう fukinkou | imbalance; lack of balance; lopsidedness |
| 拡大均衡 | かくだいきんこう kakudaikinkou | an expanded or expanding equilibrium |
| 大量 | たいりょう tairyou | large quantity; massive (quantity); mass (e.g. mass production, mass transit, mass destruction) |
| 重量 | じゅうりょう juuryou | weight |
| 数量 | すうりょう suuryou | quantity; volume; amount |
Data: JMdict (CC BY-SA 4.0); KANJIDIC2 (CC BY-SA 4.0); KanjiVG (CC BY-SA 3.0); wordfreq (CC BY-SA 4.0 (data)). Retrieved 2026-10-22.