開く
あく
to open (e.g. doors)
N5 #1,446
Meanings
also 空く · 明く
- godan verb, intransitive, esp. 開く to open (e.g. doors)
- esp. 開く to open (e.g. business, etc.)
- esp. 空く to be empty
- esp. 空く to be vacant; to be available; to be free
- esp. 明く to be open (e.g. neckline, etc.)
- esp. 明く to have been opened (of one's eyes, mouth, etc.)
- esp. 明く to come to an end
- godan verb, transitive, esp. 明く to open (one's eyes, mouth, etc.)
- godan verb, intransitive to have a hole; to form a gap; to have an interval (between events)
ひらく
- godan verb, intransitive, transitive to open; to undo; to unseal; to unpack
- to bloom; to unfold; to spread out
- to open (for business, e.g. in the morning)
- to be wide (gap, etc.); to widen
- godan verb, transitive to hold (meeting, party, etc.); to give; to open
- to found (nation, dynasty, sect, etc.); to open (a new business); to set up; to establish; to start
- to open (ports, borders, etc.)
- to open (an account)
- to open up (new land, path, etc.); to clear; to develop
- computing to open (a file, etc.)
- mathematics to extract (root); to reduce (equation)
- food, cooking, as 魚を開く to cut open (fish)
- to change (kanji into hiragana)
- godan verb, intransitive to flare (e.g. skirt)
- sports, as 体が開く, 肩が開く, etc. to slacken (into a poor posture)
- usually in kana, go (game), usu. ヒラく to extend