打つ

Japanese

Kanji in this term
打
う
Grade: 3
kun’yomi

Pronunciation

Verb

打つ (transitive, godan conjugation, hiragana うつ, rōmaji utsu)

  1. to hit, to beat, to strike
    壁 (かべ)に頭 (あたま)を打 (う)ってしまった。
    Kabe ni atama o utteshimatta.
    I've hit my head on the wall.
  2. (baseball) to hit
    ヒットを打 (う)つ
    hitto o utsu
    to hit
    ホームランを打 (う)つ
    hōmuran o utsu
    to hit a home run
  3. (computing) to type
    キーボードを打 (う)つ
    kībōdo o utsu
    to use a keyboard
    長 (ちょう)文 (ぶん)を打 (う)つ
    chōbun o utsu
    to type out a long passage
    文 (も)字 (じ)を打 (う)つ
    moji o utsu
    to type text

Conjugation

References

  1. ↑ 1998, NHK日本語発音アクセント辞典 (NHK Japanese Pronunciation Accent Dictionary) (in Japanese), Tōkyō: NHK, →ISBN
  2. ↑ 1974, 新明解国語辞典 (Shin Meikai Kokugo Jiten), Second Edition (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Sanseidō
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