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First opened Tuesday, January 27, 2009

好き

すき

  • tail-high (odaka): 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).

liking, fondness, love

JLPT N5Commonadjectival nouns or quasi-adjectives (keiyodoshi)noun (common) (futsuumeishi)和語 · Native Japanese

好き, “liking, fondness, love”, is the continuative stem of the verb 好く (suku), first cited in the 宇津保物語.

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 好

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.

  • “The 連(れん)用(よう)形(けい) (ren'yōkei, “stem or continuative form”) of the verb 好(す)く (suku, “to like, to be fond of, to enjoy, to feel love for”).”
  • “First cited to the late 900s in the 宇津保物語 (Utsubo Monogatari).”

Source: Wiktionary: 好き (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.

Related in the dictionary

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Opposite

Also read すき

Other words so far with exactly this reading and another spelling, oldest first, with the pitch accent each entry shows: where they differ, the pitch tells the words apart in speech. Only the readings are compared; nothing is claimed about how the words are related.

  • 好きThis word

    liking, fondness, love

    すき↓ tail-high (odaka)

  • 隙

    unguarded moment, chance

    すき flat (heiban)

Also opened on January 27

The words that opened on this day of the year in other years, oldest first. They share only the date: nothing else links them.

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