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First opened Thursday, September 2, 2010

弾く

ひく

  • 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 play (a string instrument or piano)

JLPT N5CommonGodan verb with 'ku' endingtransitive verb和語 · Native Japanese

Hiku “to play (an instrument)” is derived from 引く (hiku, “to pull”).

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 弾

In a sentence

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What Wiktionary says

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  • “Derived from 引(ひ)く (hiku, “to pull”).”

Source: Wiktionary: 弾く (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.

Related in the dictionary

The words JMdict points to from this word's sense. A word that has opened links to its day; the others are named as JMdict writes them.

See also
  • 引くひくto pull, to draw; subtract

Also read ひく

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.

  • 弾くThis word

    to play (a string instrument or piano)

    ひく flat (heiban)

  • 引く

    to pull, to draw; subtract

    ひく flat (heiban)

Also opened on September 2

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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