音読み: ト
訓読み: はく
画数: 6
部首: くちへん（口）
Meaning
Spit / Vomit / Sigh / Speak Out
- Basic forms
- 吐く — spit; vomit; emit / base form
- 吐きます — spits; vomits / masu form
- 吐いた — spat; vomited / ta form
- 吐いて — spitting … / te form
- 吐かない — do not spit / negative
- 吐けば — if (one) spits / conditional
- Common expressions
- 息を吐く — exhale
- 弱音を吐く — voice a complaint
- 本音を吐いた — spoke one’s true feelings
- More
- 吐いている — is emitting / state
吐く（はく） is a godan transitive verb. It literally means to expel something (breath, saliva, vomit), and is also commonly used figuratively for expressing feelings, complaints, or true intentions.
- 吐く — to spit / to vomit / to breathe out / to say frankly
- 吐息 — sigh / breath
- 吐露 — to reveal one’s true feelings / to speak openly
- 吐血 — vomiting blood / blood in one’s vomit
- 嘔吐 — vomiting; a medical term for throwing up
吐 puts the mouth radical 口 on the left, showing something that comes out of the mouth. The right side supplies the sound ト. The core idea is “to expel” — to throw something out. From there, it covers both the physical act of throwing up (吐く, 吐血) and the emotional act of letting true feelings out (吐露).