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開あく
Meanings
Verb (5-dan, く, intransitive)
1. to open (e.g. doors)
esp. 開く
2. to open (e.g. business, etc.)
esp. 開く
3. to be empty
esp. 空く
Once I've finally finished taking the orders, I start clearing away the empty plates.
4. to be vacant; to be available; to be free
esp. 空く
Are you free tomorrow night?
5. to be open (e.g. neckline, etc.)
esp. 明く
6. to have been opened (of one's eyes, mouth, etc.)
esp. 明く
7. to come to an end
esp. 明く
Verb (5-dan, く, transitive)
8. to open (one's eyes, mouth, etc.)
esp. 明く
Verb (5-dan, く, intransitive)
9. to have a hole; to form a gap; to have an interval (between events)
Even so, there is still a gap of one person's width between them.
Alt. forms
空あく
59%
あく
28%
開あく
10%
明あく
2%
Kanji used
開
open
Pitch accent
あ
く
Top 7900
Conjugations...Used in: 1922
Used in vocabulary (5 in total)
to have a hole; to be pierced (with a hole)
the curtain opens (for the start of a play, act, etc.); the curtain rises; to start (of a play); to start (of an event, campaign, etc.); to begin
(staring) piercingly; (looking) hard
2 more...
Examples (17 in total)
Could it be that it opens from the opposite side?
The car door is frozen shut and won't open.
The entrance door opened automatically.
It opened so easily that it was anticlimactic.
The shop opens at 10 a.m.
Whether you push or pull, the door in front of you does not open.
I heard the front door open.
Before I can reach out, the window opens.
Ants are going in and out of the hole in the sofa, too.
The new store is going to open next week.
The window has opened, and the wind is quietly blowing in.
Here and there, the doors of the farmhouses stood slightly open.
The lock was not engaged, and the door opened easily.
The bag came open and its contents scattered.
It's paper, so of course it gets a hole if you punch it.
The locket had come open, probably from the impact of hitting the ground.
Little by little, the buds on the rosebush in my garden begin to open.