つく
Meanings
Noun
1. making; producing; manufacturing; building; construction; make; structure
2. appearance (attire, make-up, etc.)
3. build; physique
4. sashimi
5. forced (smile, etc.)
Kanji used
make
Pitch accent
くり
Top 2900
Used in vocabulary (55 in total)
to manufacture; to produce; to raise (crops); to invent; to dream up; to create
to build up; to complete; to construct; to make up; to fabricate; to invent
artificial product; man-made product; fiction; made-up story; decoration (e.g. for a festival); theatrical prop (esp. a large prop in noh or kyogen, e.g. tree, well, boat)
to remake; to rebuild
forced laugh; forced smile
to manufacture; to produce; to raise (crops); to invent; to dream up; to create
to remake; to remold; to remould; to convert; to reconstruct; to adapt
sashimi; make-up
to build up; to complete; to construct; to make up; to fabricate; to invent
maker; builder; creator; tenant farmer
fake smile; false smile
artificial product; man-made product; fiction; made-up story; decoration (e.g. for a festival); theatrical prop (esp. a large prop in noh or kyogen, e.g. tree, well, boat)
deceitful; cruel
to perfect; to detail; to polish; (arch.) to make (inside something)
manufacturing; craftsmanship; making New-Year's decorations; (arch.) preparing fields; (arch.) farming
features of the face
to remake; to rebuild
to remake; to remold; to remould; to convert; to reconstruct; to adapt
manufacturing; craftsmanship; build
fabrication; lie; fiction
networking; making contacts
rice cultivation; rice farming
built-in; fixed; attached
built-in; fixed; attached
to adorn; to decorate; to dress up; to build up
manufacturing; craftsmanship; making New-Year's decorations; (arch.) preparing fields; (arch.) farming
manufacturing; craftsmanship; making things by hand
to fix (e.g. to a wall); to secure; to install; to plant
fabrication; lie; fiction
to fix (e.g. to a wall); to secure; to install; to plant
gardening; gardener
small dried sardines or anchovies (gomame) cooked almost to dryness in soy sauce and sugar; tilling a rice field; person who tills a paddy field
floriculture; flower gardening; floriculturist
personnel training; human resources development; character building
style of building; construction; recipe; how to grow (something)
to remake; to remold; to remould; to convert; to reconstruct; to adapt
cast-on stitch
sashimi; make-up
sliced raw fish
-maker (e.g. ice-maker)
to fail in making
make-believe crying
painted eyebrows
tsukuri-e; painting technique with initial lines painted over by opaque color and redrawn later
-maker (e.g. ice-maker)
alias; pseudonym; pen name; nom de plume
feigning good feeling
feigned illness
made-up kanji; Chinese character of one's own creation; arranging a group of things or people to form a character; (arch.) kanji created in Japan (as opposed to China); (arch.) Japanese-made kanji
leather; tanned animal hide; kanji "leather" radical (radical 177)
to fail in making
feigned blindness
common mushroom (Agaricus bisporus)
to window-dress; to put on airs; to be pretentious; to pretend
Examples (5 in total)
The house was built of bricks.
He went about making a doghouse.
He explained the process of building a boat.