I Love Kanji引く (hiku)
引く (ひく, hiku) is a Japanese verb meaning “to pull; to tug”. It appears in JLPT N5 vocabulary lists and is marked as a common word in JMdict.
- Reading
- ひく
- Romaji
- hiku
- Word class
- Godan verb (う-verb) ending in く
- Level
- JLPT N5 (unofficial)
Meaning
- to pull; to tug; to lead (e.g. a horse) · godan verb, transitive
- to draw (attention, sympathy, etc.); to attract (e.g. interest) · godan verb, transitive · also written as 惹く
- to draw back (e.g. one's hand); to draw in (one's chin, stomach, etc.); to pull in · godan verb, transitive
- to draw (a card, mahjong tile, etc.) · godan verb, transitive
- to draw (a line, plan, etc.) · godan verb, transitive
Example sentences
あんな本みたらフツーの女は引くもんな！
Obviously a normal woman would lose interest if she saw a book like that!
Sentences from the Tatoeba project, linked to this word in JMdict.
Conjugation of 引く
Godan verb (う-verb) ending in く. Plain and polite forms below; try any other word in the Japanese verb conjugator.
| Form | Japanese | Reading |
|---|---|---|
| Dictionary | 引く | ひく hiku |
| Polite (~masu) | 引きます | ひきます hikimasu |
| Negative | 引かない | ひかない hikanai |
| Polite negative | 引きません | ひきません hikimasen |
| Past | 引いた | ひいた hiita |
| Polite past | 引きました | ひきました hikimashita |
| Negative past | 引かなかった | ひかなかった hikanakatta |
| Te-form | 引いて | ひいて hiite |
| Potential | 引ける | ひける hikeru |
| Passive | 引かれる | ひかれる hikareru |
| Causative | 引かせる | ひかせる hikaseru |
| Volitional | 引こう | ひこう hikou |
| Imperative | 引け | ひけ hike |
| Conditional (~ba) | 引けば | ひけば hikeba |
Kanji in 引く
Related words
Other vocabulary sharing a kanji with 引く.
字引じびきdictionary引っ越すひっこすto move (house)引き出しひきだしdrawer引退いんたいretirement引用いんようquotation引越しひっこしmoving (dwelling, office, etc.)引っ張るひっぱるto pull引力いんりょくattraction (e.g. magnetic, gravitation)強引ごういんoverbearing索引さくいんindex (in a book)引算ひきざんsubtraction割引わりびきdiscount長引くながびくto be prolonged引受るひきうけるto take on
Source: JMdict entry 1169250 (EDRDG, CC BY-SA 4.0). Level: unofficial JLPT list – how levels are assigned.