Japanese

Pronunciation

• Kun'yomi
• (Tokyo) うご​く [ùgóꜜkù] (Nakadaka - [2])^[2]
• IPA^(key): [ɯᵝɡ̃o̞kɯᵝ]

Verb

動く ‎(intransitive, godan conjugation, hiragana うごく, romaji ugoku)

1. to move
   • c. 759, Man'yōshū (book 10, poem 2176), text here:

     秋田苅 (あきたかる)、苫手 (とまで)揺 (うごく)奈利 (なり)、白露志 (しらつゆし)、置穂田無跡 (おくほだなしと)、告尓来良思 (つげにきぬらし)

     aki ta karu, tomade ugoku nari, shiratsuyu shi, oku hoda nashi to, tsuge ni kinu rashi

     The autumn-harvest rush-mat shelter moves [in the wind], as if [the wind] has come to tell us that there are no more fields full of ripe and dew-laden grain...

Conjugation

Related terms

• 動 (うご)かす ‎(ugokasu): to move (transitive)
• うごうご ‎(ugougo): wrigglingly, squirmlingly, creepingly: moving in continuous small increments
• 蠢 (うごめ)く ‎(ugomeku): to wriggle, to squirm

Etymology 2

Rare dialectal variation on ugoku above.^[1][2]

Pronunciation

• Kun'yomi
• IPA^(key): [iɡ̃o̞kɯᵝ]

Verb

動く ‎(intransitive, godan conjugation, hiragana いごく, romaji igoku)

1. (archaic, possibly obsolete) to move

Etymology 3

Rare dialectal variation on ugoku above.^[1]

Pronunciation

• Kun'yomi
• IPA^(key): [o̞ɡ̃o̞kɯᵝ]

Verb

動く ‎(intransitive, godan conjugation, hiragana おごく, romaji ogoku)

1. (obsolete) to move

References

1. 1 2 3 1988, 国語大辞典（新装版） (Kokugo Dai Jiten, Revised Edition) (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Shogakukan
2. 1 2 2006, 大辞林 (Daijirin), Third Edition (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Sanseidō, ISBN 4-385-13905-9