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Stroke order
Pronunciation [ edit ] Etymology 1 [ edit ] Derived in the Heian period from writing the man'yōgana kanji 久 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
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 ] 
