這う

Japanese

Kanji in this term

Jinmeiyō
kun’yomi
Alternative spelling
延う

Glyph origin

The usage of the character is considered to be a 国訓 (kokkun) not derived from Chinese 漢文 (kanbun) tradition. Alongside China's usage of the character for a medieval pronoun, also of murky origins, this makes a character with markedly different usages in both countries/languages.

Pronunciation

  • Tokyo pitch accent of conjugated forms of "這う"
Source: Online Japanese Accent Dictionary
Stem forms
Terminal (終止形)
Attributive (連体形)
這う [háꜜù]
Imperative (命令形) 這え [háꜜè]
Key constructions
Passive 這われる われ [hàwáréꜜrù]
Causative 這わせる わせ [hàwáséꜜrù]
Potential 這える [hàéꜜrù]
Volitional 這おう [hàóꜜò]
Negative 這わない ない [hàwáꜜnàì]
Negative perfective 這わなかった なかった [hàwáꜜnàkàttà]
Formal 這います いま [hàímáꜜsù]
Perfective 這った った [háꜜttà]
Conjunctive 這って って [háꜜttè]
Hypothetical conditional 這えば えば [háꜜèbà]

Verb

() • (hau) はふ (fafu)?intransitive godan (stem () (hai), past ()った (hatta))

  1. to crawl, to creep
    ()(むし)(えだ)()っている。
    Kemushi ga eda o hatte iru.
    A caterpillar is crawling along the branch.

Conjugation

Derived terms

References

  1. Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 [Daijirin] (in Japanese), Third edition, Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN
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