Meanings
Verb (5-dan, る, transitive)
1. to wave; to shake; to swing
2. to sprinkle; to throw (dice)
3. to cast (actor); to allocate (work)
4. to turn down (somebody); to reject; to jilt; to dump
5. to abandon; to give up; to ruin
6. to add kana indicating a reading of a word
7. to slightly change headings; to change directions
8. to extract by broiling; to prepare an infusion of; to decoct
9. to carry with great vigor (e.g. a portable shrine)
10. to bring up a topic; to lead to a topic
11. to replace; to substitute
12. to set up a joke for somebody else
Kanji used
to wave
Pitch accent
Top 1000
Used in vocabulary (28 in total)
to shake one's head
to wave one's hand
Examples (13 in total)
Tom dumped me.
Swing your arm back and forth.
Shake before using.
He shook his head up and down.
The dog wagged its tail eagerly.
I shook my head a few times.
Shake the bottle before using.
The dog was wagging his tail.
We broke up. To be precise, she broke up with me.
The player swung the bat at a ball.
The dog, wagging its tail, followed its master.
He turned the bottle upside down and shook it, but still the honey wouldn't come out.
Shake well before use.