突く
つく
Also written 衝く, 撞く, 捺く
Meanings
- Godan verb, Transitive 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.)
Kanji
- 突 thrust. Read as つく.
Example sentences
- やぶを突いて蛇をだすな。
Let sleeping dogs lie. - テーブルにひじを突くのはやめなさい。
Stop resting your elbows on the table. - その子供は、つまずいて転んで膝を突いた。
The kid stumbled and fell to his knees. - 針で親指を突いてしまった。
I pricked my thumb with a needle. - 羽子板で突く羽の玉は「むくろじ」という大木の種です。
The feathered balls you hit with a battledore are the seeds of a large tree called 'soapberry'.
Common phrases
- 不意を突く (ふいをつく) to take by surprise
- 逆を突く
- ひざをつく to fall to one's knees
- 背後を突く
- 間隙を突く
- 弱点を突く
- コースを突く
- 歩を突く (ふをつく) to advance a pawn
- 虚を突く (きょをつく) to catch off guard
- 喉を突く
- コーナーを突く
- 核心を突く
- 棒で突く
- 胸を突く
- 本質を突く
Words containing 突く
- 突き止める (つきとめる) to determine (esp. a culprit or underlying cause)
- 突き放す (つきはなす) to push away
- 突き出る (つきでる) to project
And 58 more.