拓

音読おんよみ: タク

訓読くんよみ: ひらく

画数かくすう: 8

部首ぶしゅ: てへん（手）

Meaning

Clear / Open Up / Pioneer

  • Basic forms
  • 拓く — open up; pioneer / base form
  • 拓きます — opens up; pioneers / masu form
  • 拓いた — opened up; pioneered / ta form
  • 拓いて — opening up … / te form
  • 拓かない — do not open up / negative
  • 拓けば — if (one) opens up / conditional
  • Common expressions
  • 道を拓く — carve out a path
  • 新しい市場を拓く — open up a new market
  • 未来を拓く — open up the future
  • More
  • 拓いていく — keep opening up / progress

拓く（ひらく） is a godan transitive verb. It means to open up or pioneer something new — often a path, a field, or a future. It is frequently used in formal or written contexts.

  • 拓ひらく — to open up; to clear (land)
  • 開拓かいたく — land development; pioneering
  • 拓本たくほん — rubbing (copy from inscription)
  • 未開拓みかいたく — undeveloped; untapped
  • 開拓者かいたくしゃ — pioneer; settler
  • 拓殖たくしょく — colonization; cultivation

Graphically, 扌 (hand) + 石 (stone, phonetic) evokes “hands clearing stones.” From there, the meaning extends to “open up, pioneer, develop.”

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