接

音読おんよみ: セツ

訓読くんよみ:

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部首ぶしゅ: 扌(てへん)

Meaning

Connect / Contact / Attach / Join

  • Basic forms
  • 接ぐ — join; connect; splice / base form
  • 接ぎます — joins; connects / masu form
  • 接いだ — joined; connected / ta form
  • 接いで — join and … / te form
  • 接がない — do not join / negative
  • 接げば — if (you) join / conditional
  • 接げ — join it! / imperative
  • Common expressions
  • 木を接ぐ — graft a tree
  • 糸を接ぐ — splice thread
  • 会話を接ぐ — keep a conversation going
  • More
  • 接ぎたい — want to join / 〜たい form
  • 接ごう — let’s join / 〜よう form
  • 接いでいる — is joined / state

接ぐ(つぐ) is a godan verb. It means to join or connect things end-to-end, often used for grafting plants, splicing materials, or figuratively continuing something.

  • 接続せつぞく — connection
  • 接近せっきん — approach; close contact
  • 面接めんせつ — interview
  • 接客せっきゃく — serving customers
  • 応接おうせつ — reception
  • 接収せっしゅう — seizure; requisition
  • 接種せっしゅ — vaccination
  • 隣接りんせつ — adjacency; being next to

接 combines the hand radical 扌 with the phonetic 妾 to mean “to touch/meet with the hand,” extending to ideas of contact, interaction, and attachment.

インターネットに 接続せつぞくできません。
I can't connect to the internet.

面接めんせつ時間じかん確認かくにんしてください。
Please confirm the time of your interview.

続
Creates
接続せつぞく — connection
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