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Derived in theHeian period from writing theman'yōgana kanji久 in thecursivesōsho style.
く• (ku)
- Thehiragana syllableく(ku). Its equivalent inkatakana isク(ku). It is the eighth syllable in thegojūon order; its position isか行う段(ka-gyō u-dan,“rowka, sectionu”).
Do not confuse it with thekanaiteration mark〱 which is sometimes used in vertical text.
- (Hiragana)平仮名; あぁ,いぃ,うぅゔ,えぇ,おぉ,かゕが,きぎ,くぐ,けゖげ,こご,さざ,しじ,すず,せぜ,そぞ,ただ,ちぢ,つっづ,てで,とど,な,に,ぬ,ね,の,はばぱ,ひびぴ,ふぶぷ,へべぺ,ほぼぽ,ま,み,む,め,も,やゃ,𛀆,ゆゅ,𛀁,よょ,ら,り,る,れ,ろ,わゎ,ゐ,𛄟(𛄟),ゑ,を,ん,ー,ゝ,ゞ,ゟ
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| 【口】1 | - [noun](Buddhism) themouth
- [noun](Buddhism)(by extension) one'sspeech, one'swords
- [noun] themouthpiece of aflute
- [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
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(This term,く(ku), is the hiragana spelling of the above terms.)
For a list of all kanji read asく, seeCategory:Japanese kanji read as く. |
(The following entries do not have a page created for them yet:工,久,供,駆,駒,狗,懼.)
Some obsolete inflections.
く• (ku)
- 消:disappear
- 来:come
/-u aku//-ru aku//-ki aku/ →/(-a)ku//-raku//-keku/
Originally a compound of the連体形(rentaikei) of verbs and adjectives and所(aku);Old Japanese contractions of vowel clusters caused it to be reanalyzed as the suffixes:
- く(ku) following
- らく(raku) following
- けく(keku) following the stem of adjectives.
The use of this nominalizer is calledク語法(ku-gohō).
く• (-ku)
- (obsolete)A nominalizing suffix inOld Japanese.
Inflection rules for theく form
