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書く — meaning in English

kaku

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English meaning

  • scribe noun A person employed to write or copy documents by hand, especially historically.
  • unwritten adjective Not put into writing.
  • write verb To form letters, words, or symbols on a surface in order to record or communicate information.
  • writing noun The activity or skill of forming letters or symbols to represent language.

Senses

書く is used for these senses in English:

  • scribe To write, engrave, or mark upon; to inscribe.
  • unwritten Not written.
  • write (transitive) To show (information, etc) in written form.
  • write (computing, intransitive, with to) To record data mechanically or electronically.
  • writing (uncountable) The process of representing a language with symbols or letters.

scribe — full definition

  1. noun A person employed to write or copy documents by hand, especially historically.
  2. noun A journalist or professional writer.
  3. verb To write, mark, or engrave something.

unwritten — full definition

  1. adjective Not put into writing.
  2. adjective Understood or agreed upon without being formally stated.

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