聞く — meaning in English
kiku
Japanese → English · translate English → Japanese instead
English meaning
- ask verb To put a question to someone, or to request information.
- hear verb To perceive sound through the ears.
- inquire verb To ask for information about something.
- listen verb To pay attention with your ears in order to hear something.
- listening noun The skill or act of paying attention to spoken sound.
Senses
聞く is used for these senses in English:
- ask (transitive, intransitive) To request (information, or an answer to a question).
- hear (transitive, stative) To perceive (a sound, or something producing a sound) with the ear, to recognize (something) in an auditory way. [from 10th c.]
- inquire (intransitive, US, Canada, Australia) To ask (about something).
- listening An act by which something or somebody is listened to.
ask — full definition
- verb To put a question to someone, or to request information.
- verb To request that someone do something, or to request permission.
- verb To invite someone.
- noun A request, or something requested — often used in business or fundraising contexts.
- noun The price a seller is asking for something.
hear — full definition
- verb To perceive sound through the ears.
- verb To receive news or information about something.
- verb To listen to and formally consider a case in a court of law.