First opened Sunday, May 17, 2009
気付く
きづく
- 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 notice, to recognize, to become aware of
To notice is for awareness to “stick” — つく voiced to づく.
Taken apart
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In a sentence
父と私の葛藤に、彼は気付いていないようです。
He seems not to be aware of the conflict between my father and me.
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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.
- “Compound of 気 (ki, “awareness”) + 付く (tsuku, “to stick, to attach, to turn on”). The tsuku reading for 付く changes to zuku as an instance of rendaku (連濁).”
Source: Wiktionary: 気付く (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.
- Rendaku
- The first sound of the second part voices when two native words join (kami → -gami).