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ひろい

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Japanese

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Alternative spellings
広い
弘い
宏い
博い
裕い (rare)

Etymology 1

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From Early Middle Japanese adjective (ふぃろ) (firoshi), with the (しゅう)()(けい) (shūshikei, predicative form) ending in (shi) first replaced with the (れん)(たい)(けい) (rentaikei, attributive form) ending in (ki), and then with the medial /-k-/ falling out to result in an ending of (i). From Old Japanese, from Proto-Japonic *pirə.

Pronunciation

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  • Tokyo pitch accent of inflected forms of 広い
Plain 広い [hìróꜜì]
Conjunctive 広くて くて
ろくて
[hìróꜜkùtè]
[híꜜròkùtè]
Continuative 広く
ろく
[hìróꜜkù]
[híꜜròkù]
Negative 広くない く・
ろく・
[hìróꜜkù náꜜì]
[híꜜròkù náꜜì]
Past 広かった かった
ろかった
[hìróꜜkàttà]
[híꜜròkàttà]
Negative past 広くなかった く・かった
ろく・かった
[hìróꜜkù náꜜkàttà]
[híꜜròkù náꜜkàttà]
Conditional 広ければ ければ
ろければ
[hìróꜜkèrèbà]
[híꜜròkèrèbà]
Terminal 広い [hìróꜜì]
Formal 広いです いです [hìróꜜì dèsù]

Adjective

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ひろい (hiroi-i (adverbial ひろく (hiroku))

  1. 広い, 弘い, 宏い: wide, broad
    その(かわ)(ひろ)
    Sono kawa wa hiroi.
    That river is wide.
  2. 広い, 弘い, 宏い: spacious
    (いち)(ばん)(ひろ)()(どう)()(けん)
    ichiban hiroi todōfuken
    largest prefecture of Japan
  3. 広い, 弘い, 宏い: vast, large
  4. 広い, 弘い, 宏い, 博い: broad, wide-ranging
Inflection
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Inflection of ひろい
Stem forms
Imperfective (未然形) ひろかろ hirokaro
Continuative (連用形) ひろく hiroku
Terminal (終止形) ひろい hiroi
Attributive (連体形) ひろい hiroi
Hypothetical (仮定形) ひろけれ hirokere
Imperative (命令形) ひろかれ hirokare
Key constructions
Informal negative ひろくない hiroku nai
Informal past ひろかった hirokatta
Informal negative past ひろくなかった hiroku nakatta
Formal ひろいです hiroi desu
Formal negative ひろくないです hiroku nai desu
Formal past ひろかったです hirokatta desu
Formal negative past ひろくなかったです hiroku nakatta desu
Conjunctive ひろくて hirokute
Conditional ひろければ hirokereba
Provisional ひろかったら hirokattara
Volitional ひろかろう hirokarō
Adverbial ひろく hiroku
Degree ひろさ hirosa
Antonyms
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Derived terms
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References

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  • Ineko Kondō, Fumi Takano, Mary E. Althaus, et al. (2002), Shogakukan Progressive Japanese-English Dictionary, third edition, Tokyo: Shōgakukan, →ISBN

Etymology 2

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For pronunciation and definitions of ひろい – see the following entry.
広井
[proper noun] a surname
(This term, ひろい (hiroi), is the hiragana spelling of the above term.)
For a list of all kanji read as ひろい, see Category:Japanese kanji read as ひろい.