List: Godan verb with 'ku' ending
popular JLPT N4 godan verb godan verb (archaic) verb (generic) intransitive verb
- to move, to stir, to shift, to shake, to swing
- to operate, to run, to go, to work
- to make a move, to take action, to act, to go into action
- to be touched, to be influenced
- to change, to vary, to fluctuate, to waver
- to be transferred
popular JLPT N1 godan verb godan verb (archaic) verb (generic) transitive verb
- to guide, to lead, to show the way, to conduct
- to derive, to deduce
popular JLPT N2 godan verb godan verb (archaic) verb (generic) transitive verb
- to prick, to stab
- to poke, to prod, to push, to thrust, to nudge, to hit, to strike
- to use (a cane), to prop oneself up with, to press against (the floor, etc.)
- to attack
- to brave (the rain, etc.)
popular irregular kanji usage irregular okurigana JLPT N1 usually written using kana alone godan verb godan verb (archaic) verb (generic) transitive verb
- to poke (repeatedly, lightly), to nudge
- to peck at (one's food), to pick at
- to peck at (someone's faults, etc.)
- to egg on, to put up to
popular JLPT N3 godan verb godan verb (archaic) verb (generic) intransitive verb
- to reach, to touch, to get to, to carry (of sound)
- to be delivered, to arrive
- to be attentive, to be scrupulous, to be thorough
- to be realized (of a desire), to be fulfilled, to get through (to someone), to be appreciated, to make an impression
popular rarely used kanji form JLPT N2 godan verb godan verb (archaic) verb (generic) transitive verb intransitive verb archaic
- to peek (through a keyhole, gap, etc.)
- to look down into (a ravine, etc.)
- to peek into (a shop, bookstore, etc.)
- to sneak a look at, to take a quick look at
- to peep (through a telescope, microscope, etc.)
- to stick out (a scarf from a collar, etc.), to peek through (sky through a forest canopy, etc.)
- to examine (an expression), to study (a face)
- to face
popular JLPT N1 godan verb godan verb (archaic) verb (generic) intransitive verb
- to run counter to, to go against, to disobey, to infringe
popular JLPT N2 usually written using kana alone godan verb godan verb (archaic) verb (generic) transitive verb
- to peel, to skin, to pare, to hull, to strip
- to bare (teeth, fangs), to open wide (eyes)
popular JLPT N3 godan verb godan verb (archaic) verb (generic) transitive verb suffix slang vulgar expression or word
- to pull out, to draw out, to extract, to unplug, to weed
- to omit, to leave out, to go without, to skip
- to do to the end, to do thoroughly, to do completely, to do severely
- to let out (e.g. air from a tyre), to drain (e.g. water from a bath), to empty
- to pick out, to choose, to select, to extract
- to pilfer, to steal
- to remove, to get rid of, to take out
- to pass, to overtake, to outstrip, to get ahead of
- to pierce, to break through, to go through
- to cut out (a shape), to create (a pattern) by dying the surrounding area
- to seize, to capture, to reduce
- to scoop (a story)
- to take out (an opponent's stones; in go)
- to masturbate (of a male), to ejaculate (while masturbating)
- to take (a photo), to record (video)
popular search-only kanji form JLPT N2 godan verb godan verb (archaic) verb (generic) transitive verb formal or literary term intransitive verb
- to spread out (e.g. a futon), to lay out
- to lay down (e.g. a cushion)
- to impose widely (e.g. martial law), to promulgate
- to pin down, to hold down
- to lay (e.g. railway tracks)
- to deploy (e.g. troops)
- to spread (e.g. snow), to be propagated