あたる

当 たる

Common word

  1. Godan verb with 'ru' ending, intransitive verb

    to be hit, to strike

    • 私は顔に冷たい風が当たるのを感じた。
      I felt a cold wind on my face.
    • 彼は発砲したが当たらなかった。
      He fired but missed.

  2. Godan verb with 'ru' ending, intransitive verb

    to touch, to be in contact, to be affixed

  3. Godan verb with 'ru' ending, intransitive verb

    to be equivalent to, to be applicable, to apply to
    often as ...に当たる

    • 日本の桜はまさにイギリスのバラにあたる。
      The cherry blossom is to Japan what the rose is to England.

  4. Godan verb with 'ru' ending, intransitive verb

    to be right on the money (of a prediction, criticism, etc.)

    • 不思議な話だが、彼の予言は当たった。
      Strange to say, his prediction has come true.

  5. Godan verb with 'ru' ending, intransitive verb

    to be selected (in a lottery, etc.), to win

    • 福引きでカメラが当たった。
      I got a camera in a lottery.

  6. Godan verb with 'ru' ending, intransitive verb

    to be successful, to go well, to be a hit

  7. Godan verb with 'ru' ending, intransitive verb

    to face, to confront

  8. Godan verb with 'ru' ending, intransitive verb

    to lie (in the direction of)

  9. Godan verb with 'ru' ending, intransitive verb

    to undertake, to be assigned

  10. Godan verb with 'ru' ending, intransitive verb

    to be stricken (by food poisoning, heat, etc.), to be afflicted

    • 彼はフグにあたった。
      He was poisoned by the globefish he ate.

  11. Godan verb with 'ru' ending, intransitive verb

    to be called on (e.g. by a teacher)

  12. Godan verb with 'ru' ending, intransitive verb

    to treat (esp. harshly), to lash out at

  13. Godan verb with 'ru' ending, intransitive verb

    to be unnecessary
    as 〜するには当たらない, etc.

  14. Godan verb with 'ru' ending, intransitive verb

    to be hitting well, to be on a hitting streak
    usu. as 当たっている

  15. Godan verb with 'ru' ending, intransitive verb

    to feel a bite (in fishing)

  16. Godan verb with 'ru' ending, intransitive verb

    (of fruit, etc.) to be bruised, to spoil

  17. Godan verb with 'ru' ending, transitive verb

    to feel (something) out, to probe into, to check (i.e. by comparison)

  18. Godan verb with 'ru' ending, transitive verb

    to shave

  19. Godan verb with 'ru' ending, transitive verb

    to be a relative of a person, to be a ... in relation to ..., to stand in a relationship
    as 〜の〜に当たる