吹く

Japanese

Kanji in this term

Grade: S
kun'yomi

Etymology

May originally have been an onomatopoeia. Compare ふうふう (fūfū, to blow with one's lips rounded) .

Pronunciation

  • (Tokyo) [fúꜜkù] (Atamadaka – [1])[1][2]
  • (Tokyo) [fùkúꜜ] (Odaka – [2])[1][2] non-lexical pitch that some speakers employ to reconcile coinciding devoicing and accenting
  • IPA(key): [ɸɯ̟̊kɯ̟]
  • Tokyo pitch accent of conjugated forms of 吹く
Plain 吹く [fúꜜkù]
Conjunctive 吹いて いて [fúꜜìtè]
Perfective 吹いた いた [fúꜜìtà]
Negative 吹かない ない [fùkáꜜnàì]
Negative perfective 吹かなかった なかった [fùkáꜜnàkàttà]
Hypothetical conditional 吹けば けば [fúꜜkèbà]
Past conditional 吹いたら いたら [fúꜜìtàrà]
Imperative 吹け [fúꜜkè]
Volitional 吹こう [fùkóꜜò]
Desiderative 吹きたい きた [fùkítáꜜì]
Formal 吹きます きま [fùkímáꜜsù]
Formal negative 吹きません きませ [fùkímáséꜜǹ]
Formal volitional 吹きましょう きましょ [fùkímáshóꜜò]
Formal perfective 吹きました きました [fùkímáꜜshìtà]
Continuative 吹き
吹きに

きに
[fúꜜkì]
[fúꜜkì nì]
Negative continuative 吹かず
吹かずに

ずに
[fùkáꜜzù]
[fùkáꜜzù nì]
Passive 吹かれる かれ [fùkáréꜜrù]
Causative 吹かせる
吹かす
かせ
[fùkáséꜜrù]
[fùkáꜜsù]
Potential 吹ける [fùkéꜜrù]

Verb

() • (fukutransitive or intransitive godan (stem () (fuki), past ()いた (fuita))

  1. (transitive or intransitive) to blow, (of wind) to move, to cause air to move
  2. (intransitive) to spout (as a gas or liquid, out of something)
  3. (transitive) to play (a woodwind or brass instrument), to blow (a whistle)
  4. (intransitive) to laugh reflexively

Conjugation

Derived terms

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 [Daijirin] (in Japanese), Third edition, Tokyo: Sanseidō, →ISBN
  2. 2.0 2.1 NHK Broadcasting Culture Research Institute, editor (1998), NHK日本語発音アクセント辞典 [NHK Japanese Pronunciation Accent Dictionary] (in Japanese), Tokyo: NHK Publishing, Inc., →ISBN