Japanese [ edit ]
Stroke order
Pronunciation [ edit ]
Etymology 1 [ edit ]
Derived in the Heian period from writing the man'yōgana kanji 久 in the cursive sōsho style.
Syllable [ edit ]
く • (ku )
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 [ edit ]
Do not confuse it with the kana iteration mark 〱 which is sometimes used in vertical text.
Derived terms [ edit ]
See also [ edit ]
(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 𛄲 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 ら゚ , り り゚ , る る゚ , れ れ゚ , ろ ろ゚ , わ ゎ わ゙ , ゐ 𛅐 ゐ゙ , 𛄟 , ゑ 𛅑 ゑ゙ , を 𛅒 を゙ , ん , ー , ゝ , ゞ , ゟ
Etymology 2 [ edit ]
For pronunciation and definitions of く – see the following entries.
【口 】 1
[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
(This term, く , 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 are uncreated: 工 , 久 , 供 , 駆 , 駒 , 狗 , 懼 .)
Etymology 3 [ edit ]
Some obsolete inflections.
く • (ku )
消 : disappear
来 : come
繰 : repeat
Etymology 4 [ edit ]
/-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:
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( ごほう ) ( ku-gohō ) .
Alternative forms [ edit ]
く • (-ku )
( obsolete ) A nominalizing suffix in Old Japanese .
Usage notes [ edit ]
Inflection rules for the く form
Derived terms [ edit ]