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Derived in the Heian period from writing the man'yōgana kanji 久 in the cursive sōsho style.
- 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_”).
Do not confuse it with the kana iteration mark 〱 which is sometimes used in vertical text.
- ぐ (gu)
- (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 (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 (𛅐)ゐ゙, 𛄟 (𛄟), ゑ𛅑 (𛅑)ゑ゙, を𛅒 (𛅒)を゙, ん, ー, ゝ, ゞ, ゟ
| For pronunciation and definitions of く – see the following entries. |
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| 【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 (ku), 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.)
Some obsolete inflections.
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/-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
- 未然形(みぜんけい) (mizenkei) of 四段活用(よだんかつよう) (yodan katsuyō) and ラ行変格活用(ぎょうへんかくかつよう) (ra-gyō henkaku katsuyō) verbs
- らく (raku) following
- 終止形(しゅうしけい) (shūshikei) of 二段活用(にだんかつよう) (nidan katsuyō), サ行変格活用(ぎょうへんかくかつよう) (sa-gyō henkaku katsuyō), カ行変格活用(ぎょうへんかくかつよう) (ka-gyō henkaku katsuyō), and ナ行変格活用(ぎょうへんかくかつよう) (na-gyō henkaku katsuyō) verbs
- 未然形(みぜんけい) (mizenkei) or 連用形(れんようけい) (ren'yōkei) of 一段活用(いちだんかつよう) (ichidan katsuyō) verbs
- けく (keku) following the stem of adjectives.
The use of this nominalizer is called ク語法(ごほう) (ku-gohō).
- (obsolete) A nominalizing suffix in Old Japanese.