しく

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See also: じく

Japanese

Etymology 1

For pronunciation and definitions of しく – see the following entries.
【市区】
municipal district
【四苦】
(Buddhism) the four kinds of suffering: birth, old age, disease and death
(This term, しく (shiku), is the hiragana spelling of the above terms.)
For a list of all kanji read as しく, see Category:Japanese kanji read as しく.)

Etymology 2

Alternative spellings
敷く
布く
施く (rare)

From Old Japanese, from Proto-Japonic *sik-.

Pronunciation

  • Tokyo pitch accent of conjugated forms of 「敷く」
Source: Online Japanese Accent Dictionary
Stem forms
Terminal (終止形)
Attributive (連体形) 		敷く しく
Imperative (命令形) 敷け しけ
Key constructions
Passive 敷かれる しかれる
Causative 敷かせる しかせる
Potential 敷ける しける
Volitional 敷こう しこー
Negative 敷かない しかない
Negative perfective 敷かなかった しかなかった
Formal 敷きます しきます
Perfective 敷いた しいた
Conjunctive 敷いて しいて
Hypothetical conditional 敷けば しけば

Verb

しく • (shiku) ←しく (siku)?godan (stem しき (shiki), past しいた (shiita))

  1. to spread, to lay
  2. to install
    定年制(ていねんせい)を敷(し)く
    teinensei o shiku
    to implement mandatory retirement
Conjugation
Conjugation of "しく" (See Appendix:Japanese verbs.)
Katsuyōkei ("stem forms")
Mizenkei ("imperfective") しか shika
Ren’yōkei ("continuative") しき shiki
Shūshikei ("terminal") しく shiku
Rentaikei ("attributive") しく shiku
Kateikei ("hypothetical") しけ shike
Meireikei ("imperative") しけ shike
Key constructions
Passive しかれる shikareru
Causative しかせる
しかす 		shikaseru
shikasu
Potential しける shikeru
Volitional しこう shikō
Negative しかない shikanai
Negative continuative しかず shikazu
Formal しきます shikimasu
Perfective しいた shiita
Conjunctive しいて shiite
Hypothetical conditional しけば shikeba
Derived terms

Etymology 3

Alternative spellings
如く
若く
及く

Pronunciation

Verb

しく • (shiku) ←しく (siku)?godan (stem しき (shiki), past しいた (shiita))

  1. to equal; to match; to be comparable with; to rival
Conjugation
Conjugation of "しく" (See Appendix:Japanese verbs.)
Katsuyōkei ("stem forms")
Mizenkei ("imperfective") しか shika
Ren’yōkei ("continuative") しき shiki
Shūshikei ("terminal") しく shiku
Rentaikei ("attributive") しく shiku
Kateikei ("hypothetical") しけ shike
Meireikei ("imperative") しけ shike
Key constructions
Passive しかれる shikareru
Causative しかせる
しかす 		shikaseru
shikasu
Potential しける shikeru
Volitional しこう shikō
Negative しかない shikanai
Negative continuative しかず shikazu
Formal しきます shikimasu
Perfective しいた shiita
Conjunctive しいて shiite
Hypothetical conditional しけば shikeba
Derived terms
Derived terms

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 [Daijirin] (in Japanese), Third edition, Tokyo: Sanseidō, →ISBN
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