空き

Japanese

Kanji in this term
空
あ Grade: 1
kun’yomi

Alternative forms

• 明き, 開き

Pronunciation

• Kun’yomi
  • (Tokyo) あき [àkí] (Heiban – [0])
  • IPA^(key): [a̠kʲi]

Noun

空き (hiragana あき, katakana アキ, rōmaji aki)

1. room; space
2. a gap
3. unused time
4. a vacancy
5. (typography) a space before or after a character, especially a punctuation mark, such as the space after 。 、 」 ） etc. or before 「 （ etc.