I Love Kanji開く (hiraku)
開く (ひらく, hiraku) is a Japanese verb meaning “to open; to undo”. It appears in JLPT N4 vocabulary lists and is marked as a common word in JMdict.
- Reading
- ひらく
- Romaji
- hiraku
- Word class
- Godan verb (う-verb) ending in く
- Level
- JLPT N4 (unofficial)
Meaning
- to open; to undo; to unseal; to unpack · godan verb, intransitive, transitive
- to bloom; to unfold; to spread out · godan verb, intransitive, transitive
- to open (for business, e.g. in the morning) · godan verb, intransitive, transitive
- to be wide (gap, etc.); to widen · godan verb, intransitive, transitive
- to hold (meeting, party, etc.); to give; to open · godan verb, transitive
Example sentences
庭のバラの木のつぼみが少しずつ開き始める。
Little by little, the buds on the rosebush in my garden begin to open.
Sentences from the Tatoeba project, linked to this word in JMdict.
Conjugation of 開く
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 | 開く | ひらく hiraku |
| Polite (~masu) | 開きます | ひらきます hirakimasu |
| Negative | 開かない | ひらかない hirakanai |
| Polite negative | 開きません | ひらきません hirakimasen |
| Past | 開いた | ひらいた hiraita |
| Polite past | 開きました | ひらきました hirakimashita |
| Negative past | 開かなかった | ひらかなかった hirakanakatta |
| Te-form | 開いて | ひらいて hiraite |
| Potential | 開ける | ひらける hirakeru |
| Passive | 開かれる | ひらかれる hirakareru |
| Causative | 開かせる | ひらかせる hirakaseru |
| Volitional | 開こう | ひらこう hirakou |
| Imperative | 開け | ひらけ hirake |
| Conditional (~ba) | 開けば | ひらけば hirakeba |
Kanji in 開く
Related words
Other vocabulary sharing a kanji with 開く.
開けるあけるto open (a door, etc.)開始かいしstart開会かいかいopening of a meeting開通かいつうopening (of a new road, railway, etc.)開放かいほうopening (a door, window, etc.)展開てんかいdevelopment開催かいさいholding (a conference, exhibition, etc.)開拓かいたくreclamation (e.g. of wasteland)開発かいはつdevelopment打開だかいbreak in the deadlock未開みかいuncivilized切開せっかいincision
Source: JMdict entry 1202440 (EDRDG, CC BY-SA 4.0). Level: unofficial JLPT list – how levels are assigned.