開き

Japanese

Etymology 1

Kanji in this term
開
ひら Grade: 3
kun'yomi

鰊の開き (noun sense 4) — Pacific herring hiraki

連(れん)用(よう)形(けい) (ren'yōkei, “stem or continuative form”) of the verb 開(ひら)く (hiraku, “to open”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [çiɾa̠kʲi]
• (Tokyo) ひらき [hìrákíꜜ] (Odaka – [3])

Noun

開(ひら)き • (hiraki) 

1. opening (e.g. of a hinged door)
2. blooming (of a flower)
3. difference; discrepancy
5. fish that has been cut along the belly, opened, gutted, and usually dried
6. (orthography) the practice of writing a word in kana (usually hiragana) instead of its standard kanji

   Antonym: 閉じ (toji)

7. clipping of 開き戸 (hirakido, “hinged door”)
8. ending; closing (of a party or ceremony)

   お開(ひら)きにしましょうか。 ― O-hiraki ni shimashō ka. ― Let's call it a night.

Verb

開(ひら)き • (hiraki) 

1. stem or continuative form of 開く (hiraku) [godan]

Etymology 2

Kanji in this term
開
あ Grade: 3
kun'yomi

For pronunciation and definitions of 開き – see the following entry.

【空あき】 [noun] room; space [noun] a gap [noun] unused time [noun] a vacancy [noun] (typography) whitespace before or after a character, especially a punctuation mark, such as the space after 。 、 」 』 ） etc. or before 「 『 （ etc., used for monospace typesettings (often spelled in katakana as アキ) Alternative spellings 明き, アキ

(This term, 開き, is an alternative spelling of the above term.)