運ぶ
はこぶ
hepburn hakobu
to carry, to transport
Part of speech · godan-verb
Pattern visualization
Examples
- 荷物を運びます。I carry the luggage.
- 計画が順調に運んでいます。The plan is moving along smoothly.
Collocations
運ぶ (hakobu, carry / transport)運動 (undou, exercise — same kanji)運転 (unten, driving)運命 (unmei, fate / destiny)事が運ぶ (koto ga hakobu, matters proceed)
Mnemonic
運ぶ hakobu — transitive "to carry / transport". Figuratively applies to plans, matters, conversations: 計画が運ぶ ("the plan is carried" = it progresses). Onyomi うん (un): 運動 (undou, exercise — "carrying movement"), 運転 (unten, driving — "carry-turning"), 運命 (unmei, fate — "the carried command / where life is carried"). Kanji 運 = 辶 (walk) + 軍 (army) — image of an army on the march. One of the deepest semantic extensions in Japanese vocabulary.
Quick check
Cognitive reading of the kanji compound 運命?