く

See also: ぐ, く゚, 〱, ㄑ, ㇛, and 𡿨
Category:Character boxes with images#*0000012367
く U+304F, く
HIRAGANA LETTER KU
← ぎ
[U+304E] 		HiraganaCategory:Hiragana block#*0000012367 ぐ →
[U+3050]
Category:Hiragana script characters#%20く

Japanese

Stroke order
1 stroke

Pronunciation

Category:Japanese terms with IPA pronunciation missing pitch accent#く

Etymology 1

Derived in the Heian period from writing the man'yōgana kanji 久 in the cursive sōsho style.

Syllable

く • (kuCategory:Japanese links with redundant wikilinks#くCategory:Japanese links with redundant alt parameters#く) Category:Japanese lemmas#くCategory:Japanese terms with redundant sortkeys#くCategory:Japanese syllables#くCategory:Japanese hiragana#くCategory:Japanese entries with incorrect language header#くCategory:Pages with entries#くCategory:Pages with 1 entry#く

  1. The hiragana syllable く (ku). Its equivalent in katakana is ク (ku). It is the eighth syllable in the gojūon order; its position is か行う段 (ka-gyō u-dan, “row ka, section u”).
Usage notes

Do not confuse it with the kana iteration mark 〱Category:Japanese links with redundant alt parameters#く which is sometimes used in vertical text.

Derived terms
See also

Etymology 2

For pronunciation and definitions of く – see the following entries.
【九】1 Category:Japanese numerals#くCategory:Japanese terms with redundant sortkeys#くCategory:Japanese lemmas#くCategory:Japanese hiragana#くCategory:Japanese numerals#くCategory:Japanese terms with redundant sortkeys#くCategory:Japanese lemmas#くCategory:Japanese hiragana#くCategory:Japanese nouns#くCategory:Japanese terms with redundant sortkeys#くCategory:Japanese lemmas#くCategory:Japanese hiragana#くCategory:Japanese nouns#くCategory:Japanese terms with redundant sortkeys#くCategory:Japanese lemmas#くCategory:Japanese hiragana#く
[numeral] nine
[numeral] ninth
[noun] nine
[noun] the ninth
Alternative spelling
玖
【口】1 Category:Japanese nouns#くCategory:Japanese terms with redundant sortkeys#くCategory:Japanese lemmas#くCategory:Japanese hiragana#くCategory:Japanese nouns#くCategory:Japanese terms with redundant sortkeys#くCategory:Japanese lemmas#くCategory:Japanese hiragana#くCategory:Japanese nouns#くCategory:Japanese terms with redundant sortkeys#くCategory:Japanese lemmas#くCategory:Japanese hiragana#くCategory:Japanese counters#くCategory:Japanese terms with redundant sortkeys#くCategory:Japanese lemmas#くCategory:Japanese hiragana#くCategory:Japanese counters#くCategory:Japanese terms with redundant sortkeys#くCategory:Japanese lemmas#くCategory:Japanese hiragana#くCategory:Japanese counters#くCategory:Japanese terms with redundant sortkeys#くCategory:Japanese lemmas#くCategory:Japanese hiragana#くCategory:Japanese counters#くCategory:Japanese terms with redundant sortkeys#くCategory:Japanese lemmas#くCategory:Japanese hiragana#く
[noun] (Buddhism) the mouth
[noun] (Buddhism) (by extension) one's speech, one's words
[noun] the mouthpiece of a flute
[counter] used to count people
[counter] used to count per-person portions
[counter] used to count open-mouthed containers
[counter] used to count bladed weapons or tools
【区】3 Category:Japanese nouns#くCategory:Japanese terms with redundant sortkeys#くCategory:Japanese lemmas#くCategory:Japanese hiragana#く
[noun] ward, section, district
【苦】3 Category:Japanese nouns#くCategory:Japanese terms with redundant sortkeys#くCategory:Japanese lemmas#くCategory:Japanese hiragana#くCategory:Japanese nouns#くCategory:Japanese terms with redundant sortkeys#くCategory:Japanese lemmas#くCategory:Japanese hiragana#く
[noun] suffering
[noun] (Buddhism) dukkha
【句】5 Category:Japanese nouns#くCategory:Japanese terms with redundant sortkeys#くCategory:Japanese lemmas#くCategory:Japanese hiragana#くCategory:Japanese nouns#くCategory:Japanese terms with redundant sortkeys#くCategory:Japanese lemmas#くCategory:Japanese hiragana#くCategory:Japanese nouns#くCategory:Japanese terms with redundant sortkeys#くCategory:Japanese lemmas#くCategory:Japanese hiragana#くCategory:Japanese nouns#くCategory:Japanese terms with redundant sortkeys#くCategory:Japanese lemmas#くCategory:Japanese hiragana#くCategory:Japanese nouns#くCategory:Japanese terms with redundant sortkeys#くCategory:Japanese lemmas#くCategory:Japanese hiragana#くCategory:Japanese nouns#くCategory:Japanese terms with redundant sortkeys#くCategory:Japanese lemmas#くCategory:Japanese hiragana#くCategory:Japanese counters#くCategory:Japanese terms with redundant sortkeys#くCategory:Japanese lemmas#くCategory:Japanese hiragana#く
[noun] a short section from a longer text:
[noun] a phrase or clause
[noun] a sentence or line
[noun] a passage or paragraph
[noun] a verse from a song
[noun] a stanza from a poem
[counter] counter for stanzas from a poem or for haiku
【矩】J Category:Japanese affixes#くCategory:Japanese terms with redundant sortkeys#くCategory:Japanese lemmas#くCategory:Japanese hiragana#くCategory:Japanese affixes#くCategory:Japanese terms with redundant sortkeys#くCategory:Japanese lemmas#くCategory:Japanese hiragana#くCategory:Japanese affixes#くCategory:Japanese terms with redundant sortkeys#くCategory:Japanese lemmas#くCategory:Japanese hiragana#くCategory:Japanese nouns#くCategory:Japanese terms with redundant sortkeys#くCategory:Japanese lemmas#くCategory:Japanese hiragana#く
[affix] carpenter's square
[affix] square (shape)
[affix] rule; law
[noun] (astronomy) quadrature
【躯】H Category:Japanese affixes#くCategory:Japanese terms with redundant sortkeys#くCategory:Japanese lemmas#くCategory:Japanese hiragana#くCategory:Japanese counters#くCategory:Japanese terms with redundant sortkeys#くCategory:Japanese lemmas#くCategory:Japanese hiragana#く
[affix] body
[counter] counter for Buddhist images
(This term, く (ku), is the hiragana spelling of the above terms.)
For a list of all kanji read as く, see Category:Japanese kanji read as く.)

(The following entries do not have a page created for them yet: 工, 久, 供, 駆, 駒, 狗, 懼.)Category:Japanese redlinks/ja-see#くCategory:Japanese entries with incorrect language header#くCategory:Pages with entries#くCategory:Pages with 1 entry#く

Etymology 3

Some obsolete inflections.

Verb

く • (kuCategory:Japanese links with redundant wikilinks#くCategory:Japanese links with redundant alt parameters#く) Category:Japanese lemmas#くCategory:Japanese terms with redundant sortkeys#くCategory:Japanese verbs#くCategory:Japanese verbs without transitivity#くCategory:Japanese hiragana#くCategory:Japanese entries with incorrect language header#くCategory:Pages with entries#くCategory:Pages with 1 entry#く

  1. 消: disappear
  2. 来: come

Etymology 4

Japanese Wikipedia has an article on:
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Alternative spelling
所 (obsolete)

/-u aku//-ru aku//-ki aku/ → /(-a)ku//-raku//-keku/

Originally a compound of the 連体形(れんたいけい) (rentaikei) of verbs and adjectives and 所(あく) (aku); 上代特殊仮名遣 (jōdai tokushu kanazukai) contractions of vowel clusters caused it to be reanalyzed as the suffixes:

The use of this nominalizer is called ク語法(ごほう) (ku-gohō).

Alternative forms

Suffix

く • (-kuCategory:Japanese links with redundant wikilinks#くCategory:Japanese links with redundant alt parameters#く) Category:Japanese lemmas#くCategory:Japanese terms with redundant sortkeys#くCategory:Japanese suffixes#くCategory:Japanese hiragana#くCategory:Japanese entries with incorrect language header#くCategory:Pages with entries#くCategory:Pages with 1 entry#く

  1. (obsoleteCategory:Japanese terms with obsolete senses#く) A nominalizing suffix in Old Japanese.
Usage notes
Derived terms
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