I Love Kanji敷く (shiku)
敷く (しく, shiku) is a Japanese verb meaning “to spread out (e.g. a futon); to lay out”. It appears in JLPT N2 vocabulary lists and is marked as a common word in JMdict.
- Reading
- しく
- Romaji
- shiku
- Word class
- Godan verb (う-verb) ending in く
- Level
- JLPT N2 (unofficial)
Meaning
- to spread out (e.g. a futon); to lay out · godan verb, transitive
- to lay down (e.g. a cushion) · godan verb, transitive · sometimes written as 藉く
- to impose widely (e.g. martial law); to promulgate · godan verb, transitive · sometimes written as 布く
- to pin down; to hold down · godan verb, transitive
- to lay (e.g. railway tracks) · godan verb, transitive · sometimes written as 布く
Example sentences
私は、ポーチに敷く木製のデッキパネルを購入したいと思います。
I would like to purchase a wooden deck panel that can be laid on the porch.
禁酒法のしかれていた時代に、酒類密輸入の悪どい商売を腕ずくで自分の支配下におくために、てき屋たちは、おたがいに殺しあっていた。
During prohibition days, racketeers used to rub each other out to get control of the rum-running racket.
Sentences from the Tatoeba project, linked to this word in JMdict.
Conjugation of 敷く
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 | 敷く | しく shiku |
| Polite (~masu) | 敷きます | しきます shikimasu |
| Negative | 敷かない | しかない shikanai |
| Polite negative | 敷きません | しきません shikimasen |
| Past | 敷いた | しいた shiita |
| Polite past | 敷きました | しきました shikimashita |
| Negative past | 敷かなかった | しかなかった shikanakatta |
| Te-form | 敷いて | しいて shiite |
| Potential | 敷ける | しける shikeru |
| Passive | 敷かれる | しかれる shikareru |
| Causative | 敷かせる | しかせる shikaseru |
| Volitional | 敷こう | しこう shikou |
| Imperative | 敷け | しけ shike |
| Conditional (~ba) | 敷けば | しけば shikeba |
Kanji in 敷く
Related words
Other vocabulary sharing a kanji with 敷く.
Source: JMdict entry 1497020 (EDRDG, CC BY-SA 4.0). Level: unofficial JLPT list – how levels are assigned.