List: Godan verb with 'ku' ending
popular godan verb godan verb (archaic) verb (generic) intransitive verb
- to become spring-like, to show signs of spring
popular godan verb godan verb (archaic) verb (generic) transitive verb historical term
- to thin out (plants, seedlings, crops, etc.), to cull
- to run on a curtailed schedule, to cut down, to reduce
- to kill a newborn child (due to financial difficulties)
popular JLPT N2 usually written using kana alone godan verb godan verb (archaic) verb (generic) intransitive verb
- to step aside, to move (i.e. out of the way), to make way
- to resign, to retire, to quit, to secede
popular JLPT N2 usually written using kana alone godan verb godan verb (archaic) verb (generic) intransitive verb
- to adhere to, to stick to, to cling to
- to keep close to, to go along with
- to get involved with, to be thick with, to become intimate
popular suffix godan verb godan verb (archaic) verb (generic)
- to show signs of ..., to have the appearance of ...
popular search-only kanji form godan verb godan verb (archaic) verb (generic) transitive verb
- to extract, to pull out, to draw out, to uproot
- to headhunt, to lure away, to poach, to entice
popular search-only kanji form godan verb godan verb (archaic) verb (generic) transitive verb
- to tear up, to tear off, to rip up, to tear to pieces
- to (forcibly) separate (a couple, family, etc.), to force apart, to tear apart
ๅผใใฒใhikupopular JLPT N5 godan verb godan verb (archaic) verb (generic) transitive verb intransitive verb colloquial
- to pull, to tug, to lead (e.g. a horse)
- to draw (attention, sympathy, etc.), to attract (e.g. interest)
- to draw back (e.g. one's hand), to draw in (one's chin, stomach, etc.), to pull in
- to draw (a card, mahjong tile, etc.)
- to draw (a line, plan, etc.)
- to catch (a cold)
- to play (a stringed or keyboard instrument)
- to look up (in a dictionary, phone book, etc.), to consult, to check
- to haul, to pull (vehicles)
- to subtract, to deduct
- to recede, to ebb, to fade
- to be descend from, to inherit (a characteristic)
- to quote, to cite, to raise (as evidence)
- to lay on (electricity, gas, etc.), to install (e.g. a telephone), to supply (e.g. water)
- to hold (e.g. a note)
- to apply (e.g. lipstick), to oil (e.g. a pan), to wax (e.g. a floor)
- to move back, to draw back, to recede, to fall back, to retreat
- to lessen, to subside, to ebb, to go down (e.g. of swelling)
- to resign, to retire, to quit
- to be put off (by someone's words or behaviour), to be turned off, to recoil (in disgust, etc.), to cringe
popular search-only kanji form JLPT N3 godan verb godan verb (archaic) verb (generic) transitive verb usually written using kana alone
- to untie, to unfasten, to unwrap, to undo, to unbind, to unpack
- to unsew, to unstitch
- to solve, to work out, to answer
- to dispel (misunderstanding, etc.), to clear up, to remove (suspicion), to appease
- to dissolve (a contract), to cancel, to remove (a prohibition), to lift (a ban), to raise (a siege)
- to release (from duty), to relieve, to dismiss
- to comb (out), to card, to untangle (hair)
popular JLPT N2 usually written using kana alone godan verb godan verb (archaic) verb (generic) transitive verb
- to undo, to untie, to unfasten, to unlace, to unravel, to loosen, to unpack