起こし

Japanese

Kanji in this term
起
お
Grade: 3
kun'yomi
Alternative spelling
起し

Pronunciation

  • (Tokyo) おこし [òkóshíꜜ] (Odaka – [3])
  • IPA(key): [o̞ko̞ɕi]

Noun

起(お)こし • (okoshi) 

  1. raising
  2. waking up (someone)
  3. (agriculture) ploughing
  4. (typography, of a punctuation mark) the state of being a mark with an 空き (aki) before it, such as the opening parenthesis （ or the opening quotation mark 「

Verb

起(お)こし • (okoshi) 

  1. stem or continuative form of 起こす (okosu) [godan]

See also

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