音読み: キ
訓読み: おきる・
おこる・おこす
画数: 10
部首: そうにょう（走）
Meaning
Wake up / Rise / Occur
- Basic forms
- 起きる — wake up; occur / base form
- 起きます — wakes up; occurs / masu form
- 起きた — woke up; occurred / ta form
- 起きて — waking up … / te-form
- 起きない — do not wake up / negative form
- 起きれば — if (it) happens / conditional
起きる (おきる) is an Intransitive Ichidan verb.
It is used both for waking up from sleep and for events or situations that happen naturally.
- Basic forms
- 起こす — wake (someone); cause / base form
- 起こします — wakes; causes / masu form
- 起こした — woke; caused / ta form
- 起こして — waking; causing … / te-form
- 起こさない — do not wake; do not cause / negative form
- 起こせば — if (one) causes / conditional
起こす (おこす) is a Transitive Godan verb.
It means to actively make someone wake up, or to cause an event, action, or situation.
- 起立 — standing up / rise
- 起動 — startup (system)
- 起源 — origin
- 縁起 — omen / luck / sign
- 再起 — comeback / recovery
- 奮起 — rousing oneself / taking heart
More examples - tap to expand
- 起床 — getting up (from bed)
- 起点 — starting point
- 喚起 — arousal / awakening
- 隆起 — uplift / protuberance
- 起伏 — ups and downs / undulations
Compound Verbs - tap to expand
- 引き起こす — to trigger; to provoke
- 呼び起こす — to evoke; to bring back (memories)
- 巻き起こす — to stir up (wind, trouble)
- 起こり得る — to be possible; to be likely to happen
- 起こり始める — to begin to occur
起 combines the radical 走 (run) with 己 (self), originally suggesting "begin to move oneself." It expresses movement, beginnings, or occurrences. It’s used in both physical and abstract senses (like 起きる or 起源).