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Pronunciation
Etymology 1
The hiragana character ふ (fu) with a dakuten (゛).
Syllable
ぶ • (bu)
- The hiragana syllable ぶ (bu). Its equivalent in katakana is ブ (bu).
See also
- (Hiragana) 平仮名; あぁ, いぃ, うぅゔ, えぇ, おぉ, かゕが, きぎ, くぐ, けゖげ, こ𛄲 (𛄲)ご, さざ, しじ, すず, せぜ, そぞ, ただ, ちぢ, つっづ, てで, とど, な, に, ぬ, ね, の, はばぱ, ひびぴ, ふぶぷ, へべぺ, ほぼぽ, ま, み, む, め, も, やゃ, 𛀆, ゆゅ, 𛀁, よょ, らら゚, りり゚, るる゚, れれ゚, ろろ゚, わゎわ゙, ゐ𛅐 (𛅐)ゐ゙, 𛄟 (𛄟), ゑ𛅑 (𛅑)ゑ゙, を𛅒 (𛅒)を゙, ん, ー, ゝ, ゞ, ゟ
Etymology 2
See びる.
Suffix
ぶ • (bu) †nidan
- Classical Japanese form of びる (-biru, “to act like”)
Conjugation
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| Irrealis (未然形)
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び |
bi
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| Continuative (連用形)
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び |
bi
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| Terminal (終止形)
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ぶ |
bu
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| Attributive (連体形)
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ぶる |
buru
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| Realis (已然形)
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ぶれ |
bure
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| Imperative (命令形)
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びよ |
biyo
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| Key constructions
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| Negative
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びず |
bizu
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| Contrasting conjunction
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ぶれど |
buredo
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| Causal conjunction
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ぶれば |
bureba
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| Conditional conjunction
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びば |
biba
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| Past tense (firsthand knowledge)
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びき |
biki
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| Past tense (secondhand knowledge)
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びけり |
bikeri
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| Perfect tense (conscious action)
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びつ |
bitu
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| Perfect tense (natural event)
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びぬ |
binu
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| Perfect-continuative tense
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びたり |
bitari
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| Volitional
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びむ |
bimu
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Etymology 3
| For pronunciation and definitions of ぶ – see the following entries.
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| 【分】2
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- an obsolete unit of currency equal to four 両 (ryō) and to ten 釐 (rin)
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| 【歩】2
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- a traditional unit of measurement:
- for land area, equal to 6 square 尺 (shaku) or 3.306 square metres
- for length, also equal to 6 尺 (shaku) or approximately 1.8 metres
- (finance) by extension of 分 (bu, literally “one-tenth”):
- a percentage on interest; compare English commission
- the lending and borrowing of interest itself
- percentage, proportion, ratio
- in measuring 町 (chō, “block”), 段 (tan, “300 bu/tsubo”), etc., indicates no decimal points added; compare English even, precisely
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| 【武】5
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- courage, ferocity, valor
- military power, force of arms
- the act of carrying out military force: a battle, a war
- the way of carrying out military force: strategy, tactics, martial arts
- a military person: an officer, a soldier
- (obsolete) a unit of length, equivalent to half of a 歩 (bu, six 尺 (shaku), roughly six feet or 1.8 meters), roughly equivalent to one yard or 90 centimeters
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(This term, ぶ (bu), is the hiragana spelling of the above terms.)
For a list of all kanji read as ぶ, see Category:Japanese kanji read as ぶ.)
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