起こし

Japanese

Kanji in this term
起
お Grade: 3

Alternative spelling
起し

Pronunciation

• (Tokyo) おこし [òkóshíꜜ] (Odaka – [3])
• IPA^(key): [o̞ko̞ɕi]

Noun

起(お)こし • (okoshi) 

1. raising
2. waking up (someone)
3. (agriculture) ploughing
4. (typography, of a punctuation mark) the state of being a mark with an 空き (aki) before it, such as the opening parenthesis （ or the opening quotation mark 「

See also

• 起(お)こす (okosu)
• 受(う)け (uke)