Components
置く is an exact match with one form of the following word:
置く
BOOST
Reading : おく   
'ku' godan verb, transitive verb
1. to put; to place
2. to leave (behind)
3. to establish (an organization, a facility, a position, etc.); to set up
4. to appoint (someone to a certain position); to hire; to employ
5. to place (one's trust, one's faith, etc); to bear (in mind etc)
6. to put down a tool (e.g. a pen) hence stopping what one is doing with that tool
7. to take in (boarders, etc.); to provide lodging in one's house
8. to separate spatially or temporally
'ku' godan verb, auxiliary verb
9. to do something in advance  (after the -te form of a verb; often written with kana only)
10. to leave something in a certain state; to keep something in a certain state  (after the -te form of a verb; often written with kana only)
My mastery:
My current mastery of 置く:
LOG IN to view word mastery data
My flashcards:
LOG IN to view your flashcards
Usefulness and usage:
Kanshudo usefulness level: 2 (among the 1,500 most useful words in Japanese)
• Kanshudo usefulness level is based on a usefulness score of 154,589 which gives a rank of 758
置く is the most useful form. 1 additional form is shown below.
This word is a member of our collection of the 10,000 most useful words in Japanese:
• This form is used about 20% of the time
• Google Japan frequency rank: 13,000 (about 53,800,000 results)
• This form appears in Wikipedia's list of JLPT N5 vocabulary (see JLPT collections)
• iknow! Core 6000 rank: 60 (see iKnow! collections)
• Wikipedia most common 20000 words rank: 569
• One of the 1240 words included in the Genki textbooks
• This form appears in the 1998 'Ichimango goi bunruishuu' frequent word list by Senmon Kyouiku
VIEW INFLECTIONS
Example sentences:
バッグどこ
けば
いいです
Where can I put my bag?
じけん
事件
レポート
わったら
わたし
つくえ
いてください

Once you've finished reading the incident report, please put it on my desk.
げんじょう
現状
ままして

Let well enough alone.
おく
BOOST
My flashcards:
LOG IN to view your flashcards
Usefulness and usage:
• This form is used about 80% of the time
• Google Japan frequency rank: 5,000 (about 166,000,000 results)
• Routledge most useful 5000 words rank: 269
• This form appears in the 1998 'Ichimango goi bunruishuu' frequent word list by Senmon Kyouiku
VIEW INFLECTIONS
See also:
チ   お to put   
Please LOG IN to view this kanji's mnemonic
チョク   ジキ    honest; direct   なお to correct   なお to be cured   ただちに immediately   
Please LOG IN to view this kanji's mnemonic
ジュウ   ジッ   と    とお ten   
Please LOG IN to view this kanji's mnemonic
イチ   イツ   ひと    ひと- one   
stick   
ボク   モク   eye   ま-    め    
shelf
net
Problem with this word? Question or comment? Please CONTACT US.
Kanshudo is your AI Japanese tutor, and your constant companion on the road to mastery of the Japanese language. To get started learning Japanese, just follow the study recommendations on your Dashboard. You can use Quick search (accessible using the icon at the top of every page) to look up any Japanese word, kanji or grammar point, as well as to find anything on Kanshudo quickly. For an overview, take the tour.
Search results include information from a variety of sources, including Kanshudo (kanji mnemonics, kanji readings, kanji components, vocab and name frequency data, grammar points, examples), JMdict (vocabulary), Tatoeba (examples), Enamdict (names), KanjiVG (kanji animations and stroke order), and Joy o' Kanji (kanji and radical synopses). Translations provided by Google's Neural Machine Translation engine. For more information see credits.
×