開き

Japanese

Etymology 1

Kanji in this term
開
ひら Grade: 3
kun'yomi

連(れん)用(よう)形(けい) (ren'yōkei, “stem or continuative form”) of the verb 開(ひら)く (hiraku).

Pronunciation

(Tokyo) ひらき [hìrákíꜜ] (Odaka – [3])^[1]^[2]^[3]
IPA^(key): [çiɾa̠kʲi]

Noun

開(ひら)き • (hiraki)

opening

Verb

開(ひら)き • (hiraki)

stem or continuative form of 開く (hiraku) [godan]

Etymology 2

Kanji in this term
開
あ Grade: 3
kun'yomi

For pronunciation and definitions of 開き – see the following entry.

【空あき】

[noun] room; space

[noun] a gap

[noun] unused time

[noun] a vacancy

[noun] (typography) whitespace before or after a character, especially a punctuation mark, such as the space after 。、」』） etc. or before 「『（ etc., used for monospace typesettings (often spelled in katakana as アキ)

Alternative spellings
明き, アキ

(This term, 開き, is an alternative spelling of the above term.)

References

^ Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 [Daijirin] (in Japanese), Third edition, Tokyo: Sanseidō, →ISBN
^ NHK Broadcasting Culture Research Institute, editor (2016), NHK日本語発音アクセント新辞典 (in Japanese), Tokyo: NHK Publishing, Inc., →ISBN
^ Yamada, Tadao et al., editors (2020), 新明解国語辞典 [Shin Meikai Kokugo Jiten] (in Japanese), Eighth edition, Tokyo: Sanseidō, →ISBN