Meanings
Verb (5-dan, く, transitive)
Usually written in kana
1. to scratch
2. to perspire
3. to shovel; to paddle
Pitch accent
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Used in vocabulary (17 in total)
to perspire; to sweat
to be embarrassed; to lose face
to outwit; to outsmart; to counterplot; to pierce something all the way through
Examples (9 in total)
Shall I draw a map for you?
Would you please write your name here?
You scratch my back, and I'll scratch yours.
He never misses reading the papers every morning.
Tom often scratches his back.
Would you please fill out this form?
I wrote him to ask why.
If I had known his address, I would have written.
Whether Shakespeare wrote this poem or not will probably remain a mystery.