VocabularyJLPT N5 · core

引く

ひく

hepburn hiku

to pull, to draw

Part of speech · godan-verb

Pattern visualization

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Examples

ドアを引いてください。
Please pull the door.
おみくじを引いた。
I drew an omikuji fortune.

Collocations

引く (hiku, to pull)ドアを引く (doa wo hiku, pull a door)おみくじを引く (omikuji wo hiku, draw a fortune)引退 (intai, retirement)引き分け (hikiwake, draw / tie)

Mnemonic

Hiku (引く) is "to pull / draw" — B + cluster (omikuji, intai, hikiwake cultural cluster). Kanji 引 (pull). Japanese cluster: (1) omikuji (shrine or temple fortune drawing — the act of hiku, with seven grades from kichi to kyou, plus the musubu custom of tying bad fortunes to shrine branches); (2) intai (retirement — Japans veteran salarymen, athletes, idols announce intai formally with farewell rites); (3) hikiwake (a draw / tie — orthodox result word in budou, sports, sumo); (4) tsunahiki (tug of war — undoukai field-day staple); (5) kaze wo hiku ("catch a cold" — literal "pull" metaphor). Homophone 弾く (hiku, play instrument — separate hiku-play entry). JLPT N5 plus Japans ritual, retirement, and contest-result cluster.

Quick check

Core rite of omikuji?