First opened Friday, July 29, 2005
思い付く
おもいつく
- middle-high (nakadaka): falls after mora 4
- flat (heiban)
How to read it: a line over a kana means the voice is high there, and ↓ marks where it drops. A kana with no line is low. With no ↓ the pitch stays high to the end and does not drop even on a following particle (が, は).
to think of, to hit upon
Omoitsuku is omoi, the stem of 思う (omou, “to think, to imagine”), plus 付く (tsuku).
Taken apart
思い
おもい
to think, to imagine
付く
つく
to gain, to become; to attach to, to be connected with, to come in contact with
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In a sentence
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What Wiktionary says
Quoted line by line from Wiktionary's Etymology section for this reading, taken from one dated dump so it can't change underneath us. Nothing below is paraphrased.
- “From 思(おも)い (omoi, 連(れん)用(よう)形(けい) (ren'yōkei, “stem or continuative form”) of the verb 思(おも)う (omou, “to think, to imagine”).) + 付(つ)く (tsuku, “to gain, to become; to attach to, to be connected with, to come in contact with”).”
Source: Wiktionary: 思い付く (dump of 2026-09-02), available under CC BY-SA 4.0. Reading, meaning and part of speech from JMdict, and kanji readings from KANJIDIC2 (EDRDG).
What the labels mean
- 和語 Native Japanese
- Words that were already Japanese before Chinese vocabulary arrived — usually written with kun'yomi and often short.
- Compound
- Two or more words or stems joined into one.