First opened Monday, September 29, 2008
扇ぐ
あおぐ
- middle-high (nakadaka): falls after mora 2
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 fan, to flap
扇ぐ is inherited from Old Japanese, and the source calls the shift from apu to ao irregular.
Taken apart
No breakdown is shown for this word: Wiktionary's text for it doesn't give a split that spells the word and joins to its reading, and any other split would be a guess.
Written with 扇
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.
- “/apuɡu/ → /afuɡu/ → /auɡu/ → /aoɡu/”
- “Inherited from Old Japanese. The shift from apu to ao is irregular; compare the development of 煽る (apuru → aoru, “to be blown by the wind; to fan, flap”, intransitive). Compare also 扇(おうぎ) (ōgi, “fan”), derived from the 連(れん)用(よう)形(けい) (ren'yōkei, “stem or continuative form”) of this verb, but which shows the expected shift from apu to ō.”
Source: Wiktionary: 扇ぐ (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.
- Sound change
- The pronunciation shifted over the centuries.