起し

Japanese

Kanji in this term
おこ
Grade: 3
kun'yomi
For pronunciation and definitions of 起し – see the following entry.
こし
[noun] raising
[noun] waking up (someone)
[noun] (agriculture) ploughing
[noun] (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] stem or continuative form of 起こす (okosu) [godan]
(This term, 起し, is an alternative spelling of the above term.)