叩たたく
Meanings
Verb (5-dan, く, transitive)
1. to strike; to hit; to beat; to knock; to pound; to bang; to slap; to spank; to tap; to pat; to clap (one's hands); to play (the drums)
2. to attack; to bash; to criticize; to censure; to flame (on the Internet)
3. to sound out (someone's views)
4. to pound (meat or fish); to chop into small pieces
5. to beat down the price
6. to talk (big, bad, idly, etc.)
as ...口を叩く
7. to call; to invoke (e.g. a function)
Kanji used
hit (with a hand)
Pitch accent
た
た
く
Top 1800
Used in vocabulary (16 in total)
to say nasty things (about); to use abusive language
to speak brazenly; to never shut up
to beat; to batter; to pummel
to encourage to do (something); to urge a person on; to demand action; to spank; to give a spanking; to hit someone on the bottom
to beat down prices; to strike a hard bargain
to chatter pointlessly; to waste one's breath
to knock at the gate; to request an apprenticeship; to ask to be made a pupil
to boast; to brag; to exaggerate
to boast; to brag; to exaggerate
to use a calculator; to calculate cost-benefit; to calculate profitability
to beat; to batter; to pummel
to beat down prices
to blink (one's eyes); to wink; to bat
Examples (12 in total)
I'm not going to hit you.
It's not nice to hit people.
Dad, Maria hit me!