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 — a transitive verb, "to carry"; it moves not only loads but plans and talks forward. Forking into the onyomi うん — 運動, 運転, 運命 — all cored on "moving by carrying." The kanji 運 is 辶 (to walk) + 軍 (army), grown from the picture of a marching army. Even fate is "the carried command" — the name of the road life is borne along. Kanji-reading kin: 運 reads Korean 'un' (運命), Mandarin yùn.
Quick check
Cognitive reading of the kanji compound 運命?