好き

すき
likeable

Reading

Readingすき
N5 VocabJLPT N5adj-na
Kanji好

Meanings

  1. likeable
  1. likingadj-nan.
  2. being fond of
  3. to one's liking
  4. to one's taste
  5. preferred
  6. favourite
  7. liking (romantically)adj-nan.
  8. being in love with
  9. beloved
  10. faddismn.adj-na
  11. eccentricity
  12. as one likesadj-nan.
  13. as it suits one
  14. lecherousadj-nan.
  15. lustful
  16. salacious

Antonyms

嫌い

Homonyms

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Same reading (すき)
隙 · gap

Real voices: how native speakers say it

These sentences were read aloud by real people — native Japanese speakers — for the open Mozilla Common Voice project. Listen to how a phrase sounds in real speech: the intonation, the pace, the way words run together. Two speakers mean two different people read it — compare them.

本を読むのが好きで、毎日時間を作ります。
ほんをよむのがすきで、まいにちじかんをつくります。I like reading books and make time for it every day.
本当に好きならば好きな人のために命を懸けても惜しくないはずだ。
ほんとうにすきならばすきなひとのためにいのちをかけてもおしくないはずだ。If you truly love someone, you shouldn't hesitate to risk your life for them.
旅行することが大好きで、たくさんの国に行きました。
りょこうすることがだいすきで、たくさんのくににいきました。I love traveling and have visited many countries.

Recordings and sentences: Mozilla Common Voice, CC0

Stroke order

好
き

Practice Writing

Practice Writing 好き

The whole word, one canvas per character — with a guide, then twice from memory, every character checked