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Verb [Japanese]

IPA: [ɕikɯ̟]
Etymology: From Old Japanese, from Proto-Japonic *sik-. Etymology templates: {{ja-see-kango|市区|四苦}}, {{inh|ja|ojp|-}} Old Japanese, {{inh|ja|jpx-pro|*sik-}} Proto-Japonic *sik- Head templates: {{ja-verb|hhira=しく|type=1}} しく • (shiku) ^(←しく (siku)?)godan (stem しき (shiki), past しいた (shiita)) Forms: しく ^godan [canonical], shiku [romanization], siku [romanization], しき [stem], しいた [past], no-table-tags [table-tags], しか [imperfective], shika [imperfective], しき [continuative], shiki [continuative], しく [terminative], shiku [terminative], しく [attributive], shiku [attributive], しけ [hypothetical], shike [hypothetical], しけ [imperative], shike [imperative], しかれる [passive], shikareru [passive], しかせる [causative], しかす [causative], shikaseru [causative], shikasu [causative], しける [potential], shikeru [potential], しこう [volitional], shikō [volitional], しかない [negative], shikanai [negative], しかず [continuative, negative], shikazu [continuative, negative], しきます [formal], shikimasu [formal], しいた [perfective], shiita [perfective], しいて [conjunctive], shiite [conjunctive], しけば [conditional, hypothetical], shikeba [conditional, hypothetical], 敷く [alternative, kanji], 布く [alternative, kanji], 施く [alternative, kanji, rare]
  1. to spread; to lay out flat
    Sense id: en-しく-ja-verb-HnTBwz0n Categories (other): Japanese godan verbs ending with -ku, Japanese links with manual fragments, Japanese links with redundant wikilinks, Japanese terms with Heiban pitch accent (Tōkyō), Japanese verbs without transitivity Disambiguation of Japanese godan verbs ending with -ku: 24 24 25 28 Disambiguation of Japanese links with manual fragments: 25 25 27 24 Disambiguation of Japanese links with redundant wikilinks: 25 24 27 23 Disambiguation of Japanese terms with Heiban pitch accent (Tōkyō): 14 22 33 31 Disambiguation of Japanese verbs without transitivity: 21 24 27 29
  2. to lay; to install (rails, cables, etc.) Synonyms: 敷設する
    Sense id: en-しく-ja-verb-TMADf5HN Categories (other): Japanese godan verbs ending with -ku, Japanese links with manual fragments, Japanese links with redundant wikilinks, Japanese terms with Heiban pitch accent (Tōkyō), Japanese verbs without transitivity, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries Disambiguation of Japanese godan verbs ending with -ku: 24 24 25 28 Disambiguation of Japanese links with manual fragments: 25 25 27 24 Disambiguation of Japanese links with redundant wikilinks: 25 24 27 23 Disambiguation of Japanese terms with Heiban pitch accent (Tōkyō): 14 22 33 31 Disambiguation of Japanese verbs without transitivity: 21 24 27 29 Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 24 32 24 19 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 18 47 21 14
  3. to implement; to impose
    Sense id: en-しく-ja-verb-HKGKJapt Categories (other): Japanese entries with incorrect language header, Japanese godan verbs ending with -ku, Japanese links with manual fragments, Japanese links with redundant alt parameters, Japanese links with redundant wikilinks, Japanese terms with Heiban pitch accent (Tōkyō), Japanese terms with redundant sortkeys, Japanese verbs without transitivity Disambiguation of Japanese entries with incorrect language header: 13 31 42 15 Disambiguation of Japanese godan verbs ending with -ku: 24 24 25 28 Disambiguation of Japanese links with manual fragments: 25 25 27 24 Disambiguation of Japanese links with redundant alt parameters: 13 29 40 18 Disambiguation of Japanese links with redundant wikilinks: 25 24 27 23 Disambiguation of Japanese terms with Heiban pitch accent (Tōkyō): 14 22 33 31 Disambiguation of Japanese terms with redundant sortkeys: 22 21 33 24 Disambiguation of Japanese verbs without transitivity: 21 24 27 29
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Derived forms: 布団を敷く (futon o shiku) (ruby: 布団(ふとん), ()) (english: to make the bed)
Etymology number: 2

Verb [Japanese]

IPA: [ɕikɯ̟]
Head templates: {{ja-verb|hhira=しく|type=1}} しく • (shiku) ^(←しく (siku)?)godan (stem しき (shiki), past しいた (shiita)) Forms: しく ^godan [canonical], shiku [romanization], siku [romanization], しき [stem], しいた [past], no-table-tags [table-tags], しか [imperfective], shika [imperfective], しき [continuative], shiki [continuative], しく [terminative], shiku [terminative], しく [attributive], shiku [attributive], しけ [hypothetical], shike [hypothetical], しけ [imperative], shike [imperative], しかれる [passive], shikareru [passive], しかせる [causative], しかす [causative], shikaseru [causative], shikasu [causative], しける [potential], shikeru [potential], しこう [volitional], shikō [volitional], しかない [negative], shikanai [negative], しかず [continuative, negative], shikazu [continuative, negative], しきます [formal], shikimasu [formal], しいた [perfective], shiita [perfective], しいて [conjunctive], shiite [conjunctive], しけば [conditional, hypothetical], shikeba [conditional, hypothetical], 如く [alternative, kanji], 若く [alternative, kanji], 及く [alternative, kanji]
  1. to equal; to match; to be comparable with; to rival Derived forms: 如かず (shikazu) (ruby: ()) (english: be worse than), 百聞は一見に如かず (hyakubun wa ikken ni shikazu) (ruby: 百聞(ひゃくぶん), 一見(いっけん), ())
    Sense id: en-しく-ja-verb-EeU2klTT Categories (other): Japanese godan verbs ending with -ku, Japanese links with manual fragments, Japanese links with redundant wikilinks, Japanese terms with Heiban pitch accent (Tōkyō), Japanese verbs without transitivity Disambiguation of Japanese godan verbs ending with -ku: 24 24 25 28 Disambiguation of Japanese links with manual fragments: 25 25 27 24 Disambiguation of Japanese links with redundant wikilinks: 25 24 27 23 Disambiguation of Japanese terms with Heiban pitch accent (Tōkyō): 14 22 33 31 Disambiguation of Japanese verbs without transitivity: 21 24 27 29
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Etymology number: 3

Alternative forms

{
  "derived": [
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0",
      "english": "to make the bed",
      "roman": "futon o shiku",
      "ruby": [
        [
          "布団",
          "ふとん"
        ],
        [
          "敷",
          "し"
        ]
      ],
      "translation": "to make the bed",
      "word": "布団を敷く"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_number": "2",
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "市区",
        "2": "四苦"
      },
      "expansion": "",
      "name": "ja-see-kango"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "ja",
        "2": "ojp",
        "3": "-"
      },
      "expansion": "Old Japanese",
      "name": "inh"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "ja",
        "2": "jpx-pro",
        "3": "*sik-"
      },
      "expansion": "Proto-Japonic *sik-",
      "name": "inh"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From Old Japanese, from Proto-Japonic *sik-.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "しく ^godan",
      "tags": [
        "canonical"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "shiku",
      "tags": [
        "romanization"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "siku",
      "tags": [
        "romanization"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "しき",
      "roman": "shiki",
      "tags": [
        "stem"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "しいた",
      "roman": "shiita",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "no-table-tags",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "table-tags"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ja-verbconj-row",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "inflection-template"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "しか",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "imperfective"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "shika",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "imperfective"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "しき",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "continuative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "shiki",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "continuative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "しく",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "terminative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "shiku",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "terminative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "しく",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "attributive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "shiku",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "attributive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "しけ",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "hypothetical"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "shike",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "hypothetical"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "しけ",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "imperative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "shike",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "imperative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "しかれる",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "passive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "shikareru",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "passive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "しかせる",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "causative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "しかす",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "causative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "shikaseru",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "causative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "shikasu",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "causative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "しける",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "potential"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "shikeru",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "potential"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "しこう",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "volitional"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "shikō",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "volitional"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "しかない",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "negative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "shikanai",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "negative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "しかず",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "continuative",
        "negative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "shikazu",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "continuative",
        "negative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "しきます",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "formal"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "shikimasu",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "formal"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "しいた",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "perfective"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "shiita",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "perfective"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "しいて",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "conjunctive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "shiite",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "conjunctive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "しけば",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "conditional",
        "hypothetical"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "shikeba",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "conditional",
        "hypothetical"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "敷く",
      "tags": [
        "alternative",
        "kanji"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "布く",
      "tags": [
        "alternative",
        "kanji"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "施く",
      "tags": [
        "alternative",
        "kanji",
        "rare"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "hhira": "しく",
        "type": "1"
      },
      "expansion": "しく • (shiku) ^(←しく (siku)?)godan (stem しき (shiki), past しいた (shiita))",
      "name": "ja-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Japanese",
  "lang_code": "ja",
  "pos": "verb",
  "redirects": [
    "市区",
    "四苦"
  ],
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "_dis": "24 24 25 28",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Japanese godan verbs ending with -ku",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "25 25 27 24",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Japanese links with manual fragments",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "25 24 27 23",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Japanese links with redundant wikilinks",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "14 22 33 31",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Japanese terms with Heiban pitch accent (Tōkyō)",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "21 24 27 29",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Japanese verbs without transitivity",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "english": "to lay a rug",
          "roman": "jūtan o shiku",
          "ruby": [
            [
              "絨毯",
              "じゅうたん"
            ],
            [
              "敷",
              "し"
            ]
          ],
          "text": "絨毯を敷く",
          "translation": "to lay a rug"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "to spread; to lay out flat"
      ],
      "id": "en-しく-ja-verb-HnTBwz0n",
      "links": [
        [
          "spread",
          "spread"
        ],
        [
          "lay",
          "lay"
        ]
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "_dis": "24 24 25 28",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Japanese godan verbs ending with -ku",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "25 25 27 24",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Japanese links with manual fragments",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "25 24 27 23",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Japanese links with redundant wikilinks",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "14 22 33 31",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Japanese terms with Heiban pitch accent (Tōkyō)",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "21 24 27 29",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Japanese verbs without transitivity",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "24 32 24 19",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 1 entry",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "18 47 21 14",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "english": "to lay a railroad",
          "roman": "tetsudō o shiku",
          "ruby": [
            [
              "鉄道",
              "てつどう"
            ],
            [
              "敷",
              "し"
            ]
          ],
          "text": "鉄道を敷く",
          "translation": "to lay a railroad"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "to lay; to install (rails, cables, etc.)"
      ],
      "id": "en-しく-ja-verb-TMADf5HN",
      "links": [
        [
          "lay",
          "lay"
        ],
        [
          "install",
          "install"
        ]
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "敷設する"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "_dis": "13 31 42 15",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Japanese entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "24 24 25 28",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Japanese godan verbs ending with -ku",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "25 25 27 24",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Japanese links with manual fragments",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "13 29 40 18",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Japanese links with redundant alt parameters",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "25 24 27 23",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Japanese links with redundant wikilinks",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "14 22 33 31",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Japanese terms with Heiban pitch accent (Tōkyō)",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "22 21 33 24",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Japanese terms with redundant sortkeys",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "21 24 27 29",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Japanese verbs without transitivity",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "english": "to implement a mandatory retirement",
          "roman": "teinensei o shiku",
          "ruby": [
            [
              "定年制",
              "ていねんせい"
            ],
            [
              "敷",
              "し"
            ]
          ],
          "text": "定年制を敷く",
          "translation": "to implement a mandatory retirement"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "to implement; to impose"
      ],
      "id": "en-しく-ja-verb-HKGKJapt",
      "links": [
        [
          "implement",
          "implement"
        ],
        [
          "impose",
          "impose"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "[ɕikɯ̟]"
    },
    {
      "other": "しく"
    }
  ],
  "word": "しく"
}

{
  "etymology_number": "3",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "しく ^godan",
      "tags": [
        "canonical"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "shiku",
      "tags": [
        "romanization"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "siku",
      "tags": [
        "romanization"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "しき",
      "roman": "shiki",
      "tags": [
        "stem"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "しいた",
      "roman": "shiita",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "no-table-tags",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "table-tags"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ja-verbconj-row",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "inflection-template"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "しか",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "imperfective"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "shika",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "imperfective"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "しき",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "continuative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "shiki",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "continuative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "しく",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "terminative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "shiku",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "terminative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "しく",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "attributive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "shiku",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "attributive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "しけ",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "hypothetical"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "shike",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "hypothetical"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "しけ",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "imperative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "shike",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "imperative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "しかれる",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "passive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "shikareru",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "passive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "しかせる",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "causative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "しかす",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "causative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "shikaseru",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "causative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "shikasu",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "causative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "しける",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "potential"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "shikeru",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "potential"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "しこう",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "volitional"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "shikō",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "volitional"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "しかない",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "negative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "shikanai",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "negative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "しかず",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "continuative",
        "negative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "shikazu",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "continuative",
        "negative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "しきます",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "formal"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "shikimasu",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "formal"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "しいた",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "perfective"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "shiita",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "perfective"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "しいて",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "conjunctive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "shiite",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "conjunctive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "しけば",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "conditional",
        "hypothetical"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "shikeba",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "conditional",
        "hypothetical"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "如く",
      "tags": [
        "alternative",
        "kanji"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "若く",
      "tags": [
        "alternative",
        "kanji"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "及く",
      "tags": [
        "alternative",
        "kanji"
      ]
    }
  ],
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    {
      "args": {
        "hhira": "しく",
        "type": "1"
      },
      "expansion": "しく • (shiku) ^(←しく (siku)?)godan (stem しき (shiki), past しいた (shiita))",
      "name": "ja-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Japanese",
  "lang_code": "ja",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "_dis": "24 24 25 28",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Japanese godan verbs ending with -ku",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "25 25 27 24",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Japanese links with manual fragments",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "25 24 27 23",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Japanese links with redundant wikilinks",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "14 22 33 31",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Japanese terms with Heiban pitch accent (Tōkyō)",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "21 24 27 29",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Japanese verbs without transitivity",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "derived": [
        {
          "english": "be worse than",
          "roman": "shikazu",
          "ruby": [
            [
              "如",
              "し"
            ]
          ],
          "translation": "be worse than",
          "word": "如かず"
        },
        {
          "roman": "hyakubun wa ikken ni shikazu",
          "ruby": [
            [
              "百聞",
              "ひゃくぶん"
            ],
            [
              "一見",
              "いっけん"
            ],
            [
              "如",
              "し"
            ]
          ],
          "word": "百聞は一見に如かず"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "to equal; to match; to be comparable with; to rival"
      ],
      "id": "en-しく-ja-verb-EeU2klTT",
      "links": [
        [
          "equal",
          "equal"
        ],
        [
          "match",
          "match"
        ],
        [
          "comparable",
          "comparable"
        ],
        [
          "rival",
          "rival"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "[ɕikɯ̟]"
    },
    {
      "other": "しく"
    }
  ],
  "word": "しく"
}
{
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    "Japanese entries with incorrect language header",
    "Japanese godan verbs",
    "Japanese godan verbs ending with -ku",
    "Japanese hiragana",
    "Japanese lemmas",
    "Japanese links with manual fragments",
    "Japanese links with redundant alt parameters",
    "Japanese links with redundant wikilinks",
    "Japanese terms derived from Old Japanese",
    "Japanese terms derived from Proto-Japonic",
    "Japanese terms inherited from Old Japanese",
    "Japanese terms inherited from Proto-Japonic",
    "Japanese terms with Heiban pitch accent (Tōkyō)",
    "Japanese terms with IPA pronunciation",
    "Japanese terms with IPA pronunciation with pitch accent",
    "Japanese terms with redundant sortkeys",
    "Japanese verbs",
    "Japanese verbs without transitivity",
    "Pages with 1 entry",
    "Pages with entries"
  ],
  "derived": [
    {
      "english": "to make the bed",
      "roman": "futon o shiku",
      "ruby": [
        [
          "布団",
          "ふとん"
        ],
        [
          "敷",
          "し"
        ]
      ],
      "translation": "to make the bed",
      "word": "布団を敷く"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_number": "2",
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "市区",
        "2": "四苦"
      },
      "expansion": "",
      "name": "ja-see-kango"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "ja",
        "2": "ojp",
        "3": "-"
      },
      "expansion": "Old Japanese",
      "name": "inh"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "ja",
        "2": "jpx-pro",
        "3": "*sik-"
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      "expansion": "Proto-Japonic *sik-",
      "name": "inh"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From Old Japanese, from Proto-Japonic *sik-.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "しく ^godan",
      "tags": [
        "canonical"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "shiku",
      "tags": [
        "romanization"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "siku",
      "tags": [
        "romanization"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "しき",
      "roman": "shiki",
      "tags": [
        "stem"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "しいた",
      "roman": "shiita",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "no-table-tags",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "table-tags"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ja-verbconj-row",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "inflection-template"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "しか",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "imperfective"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "shika",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "imperfective"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "しき",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "continuative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "shiki",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "continuative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "しく",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "terminative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "shiku",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "terminative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "しく",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "attributive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "shiku",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "attributive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "しけ",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "hypothetical"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "shike",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "hypothetical"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "しけ",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "imperative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "shike",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "imperative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "しかれる",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "passive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "shikareru",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "passive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "しかせる",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "causative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "しかす",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "causative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "shikaseru",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "causative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "shikasu",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "causative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "しける",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "potential"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "shikeru",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "potential"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "しこう",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "volitional"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "shikō",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "volitional"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "しかない",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "negative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "shikanai",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "negative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "しかず",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "continuative",
        "negative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "shikazu",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "continuative",
        "negative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "しきます",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "formal"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "shikimasu",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "formal"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "しいた",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "perfective"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "shiita",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "perfective"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "しいて",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "conjunctive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "shiite",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "conjunctive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "しけば",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "conditional",
        "hypothetical"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "shikeba",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "conditional",
        "hypothetical"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "敷く",
      "tags": [
        "alternative",
        "kanji"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "布く",
      "tags": [
        "alternative",
        "kanji"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "施く",
      "tags": [
        "alternative",
        "kanji",
        "rare"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "hhira": "しく",
        "type": "1"
      },
      "expansion": "しく • (shiku) ^(←しく (siku)?)godan (stem しき (shiki), past しいた (shiita))",
      "name": "ja-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Japanese",
  "lang_code": "ja",
  "pos": "verb",
  "redirects": [
    "市区",
    "四苦"
  ],
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "Japanese terms with usage examples"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "english": "to lay a rug",
          "roman": "jūtan o shiku",
          "ruby": [
            [
              "絨毯",
              "じゅうたん"
            ],
            [
              "敷",
              "し"
            ]
          ],
          "text": "絨毯を敷く",
          "translation": "to lay a rug"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "to spread; to lay out flat"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "spread",
          "spread"
        ],
        [
          "lay",
          "lay"
        ]
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "Japanese terms with usage examples"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "english": "to lay a railroad",
          "roman": "tetsudō o shiku",
          "ruby": [
            [
              "鉄道",
              "てつどう"
            ],
            [
              "敷",
              "し"
            ]
          ],
          "text": "鉄道を敷く",
          "translation": "to lay a railroad"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "to lay; to install (rails, cables, etc.)"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "lay",
          "lay"
        ],
        [
          "install",
          "install"
        ]
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "敷設する"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "Japanese terms with usage examples"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "english": "to implement a mandatory retirement",
          "roman": "teinensei o shiku",
          "ruby": [
            [
              "定年制",
              "ていねんせい"
            ],
            [
              "敷",
              "し"
            ]
          ],
          "text": "定年制を敷く",
          "translation": "to implement a mandatory retirement"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "to implement; to impose"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "implement",
          "implement"
        ],
        [
          "impose",
          "impose"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "[ɕikɯ̟]"
    },
    {
      "other": "しく"
    }
  ],
  "word": "しく"
}

{
  "categories": [
    "Japanese entries with incorrect language header",
    "Japanese godan verbs",
    "Japanese godan verbs ending with -ku",
    "Japanese hiragana",
    "Japanese lemmas",
    "Japanese links with manual fragments",
    "Japanese links with redundant alt parameters",
    "Japanese links with redundant wikilinks",
    "Japanese terms with Heiban pitch accent (Tōkyō)",
    "Japanese terms with IPA pronunciation",
    "Japanese terms with IPA pronunciation with pitch accent",
    "Japanese terms with redundant sortkeys",
    "Japanese verbs",
    "Japanese verbs without transitivity",
    "Pages with 1 entry",
    "Pages with entries"
  ],
  "derived": [
    {
      "english": "be worse than",
      "roman": "shikazu",
      "ruby": [
        [
          "如",
          "し"
        ]
      ],
      "translation": "be worse than",
      "word": "如かず"
    },
    {
      "roman": "hyakubun wa ikken ni shikazu",
      "ruby": [
        [
          "百聞",
          "ひゃくぶん"
        ],
        [
          "一見",
          "いっけん"
        ],
        [
          "如",
          "し"
        ]
      ],
      "word": "百聞は一見に如かず"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_number": "3",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "しく ^godan",
      "tags": [
        "canonical"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "shiku",
      "tags": [
        "romanization"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "siku",
      "tags": [
        "romanization"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "しき",
      "roman": "shiki",
      "tags": [
        "stem"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "しいた",
      "roman": "shiita",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "no-table-tags",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "table-tags"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ja-verbconj-row",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "inflection-template"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "しか",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "imperfective"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "shika",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "imperfective"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "しき",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "continuative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "shiki",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "continuative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "しく",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "terminative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "shiku",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "terminative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "しく",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "attributive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "shiku",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "attributive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "しけ",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "hypothetical"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "shike",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "hypothetical"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "しけ",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "imperative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "shike",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "imperative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "しかれる",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "passive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "shikareru",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "passive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "しかせる",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "causative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "しかす",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "causative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "shikaseru",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "causative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "shikasu",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "causative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "しける",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "potential"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "shikeru",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "potential"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "しこう",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "volitional"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "shikō",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "volitional"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "しかない",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "negative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "shikanai",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "negative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "しかず",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "continuative",
        "negative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "shikazu",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "continuative",
        "negative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "しきます",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "formal"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "shikimasu",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "formal"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "しいた",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "perfective"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "shiita",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "perfective"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "しいて",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "conjunctive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "shiite",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "conjunctive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "しけば",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "conditional",
        "hypothetical"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "shikeba",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "conditional",
        "hypothetical"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "如く",
      "tags": [
        "alternative",
        "kanji"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "若く",
      "tags": [
        "alternative",
        "kanji"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "及く",
      "tags": [
        "alternative",
        "kanji"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "hhira": "しく",
        "type": "1"
      },
      "expansion": "しく • (shiku) ^(←しく (siku)?)godan (stem しき (shiki), past しいた (shiita))",
      "name": "ja-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Japanese",
  "lang_code": "ja",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "glosses": [
        "to equal; to match; to be comparable with; to rival"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "equal",
          "equal"
        ],
        [
          "match",
          "match"
        ],
        [
          "comparable",
          "comparable"
        ],
        [
          "rival",
          "rival"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "[ɕikɯ̟]"
    },
    {
      "other": "しく"
    }
  ],
  "word": "しく"
}

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This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable All languages combined dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2026-09-16 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2026-09-02 using wiktextract (d6fca27 and 65e1673). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.