はねる

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Common wordJLPTN2

Meanings

ichidan verb, transitive verb

hit; knock down

usually written using kana alone

Used when a vehicle or moving object strikes a person or thing, often with serious consequences.

車くるまが歩ほ行こう者しゃをはねた。
A car hit a pedestrian.

ichidan verb, transitive verb

reject; turn down; eliminate

usually written using kana alone

Covers rejecting applications, proposals, or candidates, as well as eliminating or excluding someone or something from a group or process.

彼かれの提てい案あんは会かい議ぎではねられた。
His proposal was rejected at the meeting.
応おう募ぼ者しゃの大たい半はんが書しょ類るい選せん考こうではねられた。
Most of the applicants were eliminated in the document screening.

ichidan verb, transitive verb

flip; splash; splatter

usually written using kana alone

Describes flicking or flipping something so that liquid or small particles fly off; also used for splashing or splattering.

筆ふでの先さきをはねて墨すみを飛とばす。
Flick the tip of the brush to splatter ink.
犬いぬが水みずをはねて遊あそんでいる。
The dog is playing, splashing water around.

ichidan verb, transitive verb

take a percentage; skim off

usually written using kana alone

Used when someone takes a cut or commission from a sum of money, often with a nuance of illicit or unfair skimming.

仲ちゅう介かい業ぎょう者しゃが手て数すう料りょうをはねる。
The intermediary takes a commission.

ichidan verb, transitive verb, intransitive verb

stick up; curl up; sweep up

usually written using kana alone

Describes hair, mustaches, or brush strokes that stick up, curl, or sweep upward at the ends. Can be used both transitively and intransitively.

寝ねぐせで前まえ髪がみがはねている。
My bangs are sticking up from bedhead.
書しょ道どうで、はねをきれいに書かくのは難むずかしい。
In calligraphy, it's difficult to write a clean upward sweep.

ichidan verb, intransitive verb

pronounce as a syllabic nasal

usually written using kana alone

Linguistic term: to pronounce a mora as a syllabic nasal (ん/ン) in certain phonological environments.

「本ほんを」の「ん」は、次つぎの「を」の影えい響きょうではねることがある。
The ん in 本を can be pronounced as a syllabic nasal under the influence of the following を.

Written forms

はねるUsage92%
Standard kana spelling; usually written in kana.
撥はねるUsage8%
Kanji form is rare; the word is usually written in kana. The kanji 撥 is not a Jōyō kanji.

Kanji

撥brush up, reject, exclude

Similar words

跳はねる
跳ねる means 'to jump' or 'to leap' (intransitive), while はねる (撥ねる) is transitive and covers hitting, rejecting, flipping, etc. They are homophones but distinct in meaning and kanji.
はじく
はじく means 'to flick' or 'to repel' and often implies a quick, elastic motion, whereas はねる can mean 'to flip' or 'to splash' with a broader sense of scattering or rejecting.

Etymology

The verb はねる is of native Japanese origin. The kanji 撥 is used for its meaning of 'brush away' or 'reject', but the word is now predominantly written in kana. The exact historical derivation is uncertain.