Illustration: At a small kitchen table in a Japanese home, a child has already set out an empty rice bowl and chopsticks with unusually careful precision. One hand rests against their belly; their upper body leans eagerly toward a parent approaching with a tray of rice and grilled fish.

JLPT N4verbLevel estimated by Bebop

空すく

suku

to be hungry

Usually used as お腹が空く, with 空 read す. Note written by AI.

Example sentences

  1. お腹なかが空すいてきたよ。

    I’m getting hungry.

    Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Source

  2. お腹なかが空すいていますか？

    Are you hungry?

    Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Source

  3. お腹なかは空すいていません。

    I’m not hungry.

    Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Source

Kanji in 空

  • 空empty; skyOnクウKunそら・あく・すく

A word like this on every new tab

The Bebop Chrome extension shows one illustrated Japanese word each time you open a new tab in Chrome, with its reading, meaning, kanji and three example sentences. Choose any mix of levels from N5 to beyond N1. It’s free, with no account.

The Bebop new tab showing 音楽, music, over an illustration of a family playing music at home, with three example sentences
Add to Chrome Free on the Chrome Web Store
For Chrome on a computer. See it on the Chrome Web Store