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押す [ichi1,news1,nf08] ；圧す [sK] ；捺す [sK]
【おす [ichi1,news1,nf08] 】

[v5s,vt]
▶ to push
▶ to thrust
▶ to shove

Cross references:
	⇐ see: 2839539 おかしも 1. don't push, don't run, don't talk, don't go back (emergency drill instruction)

[v5s,vt]
《also written as 圧す》
▶ to press (down)
▶ to push (e.g. a button)
▶ to exert pressure on

[v5s,vt]
《also written as 捺す》
▶ to stamp (e.g. one's name)
▶ to affix (a seal)

[v5s,vt]
▶ to affix (e.g. gold leaf)

[v5s,vt]
▶ to push (someone for something)
▶ to press
▶ to put pressure on (someone)

Cross references:
	⇐ see: 1852820 押して【おして】 1. forcibly; by compulsion; importunately

[v5s,vt]
《usu. in the passive; also written as 圧す》
▶ to overwhelm
▶ to overpower
▶ to put (someone) under pressure
▶ to be superior to

Cross references:
	⇐ see: 1852820 押して【おして】 1. forcibly; by compulsion; importunately

[v5s,vi]
▶ to push ahead (with a policy, plan, etc.)
▶ to proceed
▶ to stick to

Cross references:
	⇐ see: 1852820 押して【おして】 1. forcibly; by compulsion; importunately

[v5s,vt]
《as ...を押して...》
▶ to do ... in spite of ...
▶ to defy
▶ to brave
▶ to push aside

Cross references:
	⇐ see: 1852820 押して【おして】 2. despite; in spite of; in defiance of

[v5s,vt]
▶ to make sure

Cross references:
	⇒ see: 1900890 念を押す 1. to remind (someone of something); to call (someone's) attention (to); to tell (someone) again (to make sure); to make (doubly) sure (of); to emphasize; to reconfirm

10.

[v5s,vi]
▶ to fall behind schedule

11.

[v5s,vi] {go (game)}
▶ to push
▶ to extend one's stones forward by pushing against opponent's stones

Cross references:
	⇒ see: 1180130 【オシ】 5. push; pushing; extending your stones forward by pushing against opponent's stones

Conjugations

History:

16.	A 2025-09-26 08:09:25 Stephen Kraus <...address hidden...>
	Comments:	Wrong apostrophe
	Diff:	@@ -100 +100 @@ -<gloss>to extend one's stones forward by pushing against opponent’s stones</gloss> +<gloss>to extend one's stones forward by pushing against opponent's stones</gloss>
15.	A 2025-08-24 12:38:02 Jim Breen <...address hidden...>
	Comments:	Making the distinction with sense 1 clearer.
	Diff:	@@ -99,0 +100 @@ +<gloss>to extend one's stones forward by pushing against opponent’s stones</gloss>
14.	A* 2025-08-23 12:38:27 Adrian Grana Nunes <...address hidden...>
	Refs:	example video where it's used a lot: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4MpTMYvjkuc
	Comments:	オシ is standard for the noun form but I am not sure if the verb is often writen オす or not so I am hesitant to add [note="usu. オす"] (also something that is hard to google)
	Diff:	@@ -93,0 +94,7 @@ +<sense> +<pos>&v5s;</pos> +<pos>&vi;</pos> +<xref type="see" seq="1180130">オシ・5</xref> +<field>&go;</field> +<gloss>to push</gloss> +</sense>
13.	A 2023-12-05 01:02:12 Jim Breen <...address hidden...>
	Comments:	Looks good.
12.	A* 2023-12-05 00:55:12 Robin Scott <...address hidden...>
	Refs:	gg5, prog, wisdom, daij, meikyo
	Comments:	Or we could move them to usage notes as neither form is especially common. Daijr/s and meikyo only have 押す as a headword. Reworked the glosses. The last two senses are archaic. I don't think they're needed.
	Diff:	@@ -11,0 +12 @@ +<ke_inf>&sK;</ke_inf> @@ -15 +16 @@ -<ke_inf>&rK;</ke_inf> +<ke_inf>&sK;</ke_inf> @@ -24 +24,0 @@ -<stagk>押す</stagk> @@ -28 +28,2 @@ -<gloss>to press</gloss> +<gloss>to thrust</gloss> +<gloss>to shove</gloss> @@ -31,2 +31,0 @@ -<stagk>押す</stagk> -<stagk>圧す</stagk> @@ -35,2 +34,4 @@ -<gloss>to apply pressure from above</gloss> -<gloss>to press down</gloss> +<s_inf>also written as 圧す</s_inf> +<gloss>to press (down)</gloss> +<gloss>to push (e.g. a button)</gloss> +<gloss>to exert pressure on</gloss> @@ -39,2 +39,0 @@ -<stagk>押す</stagk> -<stagk>捺す</stagk> @@ -43,3 +42,3 @@ -<xref type="see" seq="1903080">判を押す</xref> -<gloss>to stamp (i.e. a passport)</gloss> -<gloss>to apply a seal</gloss> +<s_inf>also written as 捺す</s_inf> +<gloss>to stamp (e.g. one's name)</gloss> +<gloss>to affix (a seal)</gloss> @@ -48 +46,0 @@ -<stagk>押す</stagk> @@ -54 +51,0 @@ -<stagk>押す</stagk> @@ -57,4 +54,3 @@ -<gloss>to press (someone for something)</gloss> -<gloss>to urge</gloss> -<gloss>to compel</gloss> -<gloss>to influence</gloss> +<gloss>to push (someone for something)</gloss> +<gloss>to press</gloss> +<gloss>to put pressure on (someone)</gloss> @@ -63,2 +58,0 @@ -<stagk>押す</stagk> -<stagk>圧す</stagk> @@ -66,0 +61 @@ +<s_inf>usu. in the passive; also written as 圧す</s_inf> @@ -69 +64,2 @@ -<gloss>to repress</gloss> +<gloss>to put (someone) under pressure</gloss> +<gloss>to be superior to</gloss> @@ -72 +68,7 @@ -<stagk>押す</stagk> +<pos>&v5s;</pos> +<pos>&vi;</pos> +<gloss>to push ahead (with a policy, plan, etc.)</gloss> +<gloss>to proceed</gloss> +<gloss>to stick to</gloss> +</sense> +<sense> @@ -75,2 +77,5 @@ -<gloss>to push (events along)</gloss> -<gloss>to advance (a plan)</gloss> +<s_inf>as ...を押して...</s_inf> +<gloss>to do ... in spite of ...</gloss> +<gloss>to defy</gloss> +<gloss>to brave</gloss> +<gloss>to push aside</gloss> @@ -79 +83,0 @@ -<stagk>押す</stagk> @@ -82,10 +86 @@ -<gloss>to do in spite of ...</gloss> -<gloss>to do even though ...</gloss> -<gloss>to force</gloss> -</sense> -<sense> -<stagk>押す</stagk> -<pos>&v5s;</pos> -<pos>&vt;</pos> -<xref type="see" seq="1900890">念を押す・ねんをおす</xref> -<xref type="see" seq="1892630">駄目を押す・だめをおす</xref> +<xref type="see" seq="1900890">念を押す</xref> @@ -95 +89,0 @@ -<stagk>押す</stagk> @@ -97,15 +91,2 @@ -<pos>&vt;</pos> -<gloss>to be pressed for time</gloss> -</sense> -<sense> -<stagk>押す</stagk> -<pos>&v5s;</pos> -<pos>&vt;</pos> -<gloss>to advance troops</gloss> -<gloss>to attack</gloss> -</sense> -<sense> -<stagk>押す</stagk> -<pos>&v5s;</pos> -<pos>&vt;</pos> -<gloss>(of light) to be diffused across an entire surface</gloss> +<pos>&vi;</pos> +<gloss>to fall behind schedule</gloss>
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11.	A* 2023-12-05 00:12:54 Jim Breen <...address hidden...>
	Comments:	I think splitting 圧す and 捺す off is not a bad idea. Before setting it up I thought I'd see if there was support for that.
10.	A* 2023-12-03 14:04:12
	Comments:	shouldn't this be split into 押す, 圧す and 捺す?
9.	A 2023-11-28 01:51:09 Jim Breen <...address hidden...>
	Comments:	圧し掛かる is a different usage. The JEs don't mention 圧す but I don't mind if the [rK] is dropped.
	Diff:	@@ -12 +11,0 @@ -<ke_inf>&rK;</ke_inf>
8.	A* 2023-11-14 05:55:49
	Refs:	Google N-gram Corpus Counts ╭─ーーーーーー─┬────────┬───────╮ │ 押し掛かる　 │ 21 │ 0.1% │ │ 押し掛かって │ 29 │ 0.2% │ │ 圧し掛かる　 │ 8,283 │ 44.4% │ │ 圧し掛かって │ 10,332 │ 55.4% │ ╰─ーーーーーー─┴────────┴───────╯
	Comments:	not sure if this example counts ("押し-" is already declared as rarely-used in jmdict), but still i don't think it should be rK
7.	A* 2023-11-14 05:37:14 Marcus Richert
	Refs:	sense 6 (examples from daijr) 雰囲気に押され 2199 82.6% 雰囲気に圧され 462 17.4% 気迫に押され 4019 91.2% 気迫に圧され 386 8.8%
	Comments:	Not convinced by the anonymous editor's argument, but arguably it's not rK for sense 6.
6.	A* 2023-11-14 05:20:18
	Comments:	it's relatively unpopular, but overall you see it everywhere and used with other verbs. "捺す" is not only unpopular, but pretty much has only one use
5.	A 2023-11-14 04:55:22 Jim Breen <...address hidden...>
	Comments:	Sorry, but it's only a minute proportion of the 押す usage.
	Diff:	@@ -11,0 +12 @@ +<ke_inf>&rK;</ke_inf>
4.	A* 2023-11-14 04:24:22
	Refs:	Google N-gram Corpus Counts ╭─ーーー─┬────────────┬───────╮ │ 押す　 │ 9,422,430 │ 36.1% │ │ 押した │ 752,332 │ 2.9% │ │ 押して │ 15,891,397 │ 60.8% │ │ 圧す　 │ 4,400 │ 0.0% │ │ 圧した │ 15,706 │ 0.1% │ │ 圧して │ 28,256 │ 0.1% │ │ 捺す　 │ 6,519 │ 0.0% │ │ 捺した │ 3,511 │ 0.0% │ │ 捺して │ 9,871 │ 0.0% │ ╰─ーーー─┴────────────┴───────╯
	Comments:	"圧す" is too popular to be rK in my opinion
	Diff:	@@ -12 +11,0 @@ -<ke_inf>&rK;</ke_inf>
3.	A 2021-11-13 06:09:43 Marcus Richert <...address hidden...>
	Refs:	押す 9422430 圧す 4400 捺す 6519
	Diff:	@@ -11,0 +12 @@ +<ke_inf>&rK;</ke_inf> @@ -14,0 +16 @@ +<ke_inf>&rK;</ke_inf>
2.	A 2012-02-07 10:24:23 Jim Breen <...address hidden...>
	Comments:	Not the most comfortable entry, with all those restrictions.
1.	A* 2012-01-26 06:54:16 Paul Upchurch
	Refs:	daijr, daijs, prog
	Diff:	@@ -46,0 +46,66 @@ +<sense> +<stagk>押す</stagk> +<pos>&v5s;</pos> +<pos>&vt;</pos> +<gloss>to affix (e.g. gold leaf)</gloss> +</sense> +<sense> +<stagk>押す</stagk> +<pos>&v5s;</pos> +<pos>&vt;</pos> +<gloss>to press (someone for something)</gloss> +<gloss>to urge</gloss> +<gloss>to compel</gloss> +<gloss>to influence</gloss> +</sense> +<sense> +<stagk>押す</stagk> +<stagk>圧す</stagk> +<pos>&v5s;</pos> +<pos>&vt;</pos> +<gloss>to overwhelm</gloss> +<gloss>to overpower</gloss> +<gloss>to repress</gloss> +</sense> +<sense> +<stagk>押す</stagk> +<pos>&v5s;</pos> +<pos>&vt;</pos> +<gloss>to push (events along)</gloss> +<gloss>to advance (a plan)</gloss> +</sense> +<sense> +<stagk>押す</stagk> +<pos>&v5s;</pos> +<pos>&vt;</pos> +<gloss>to do in spite of ...</gloss> +<gloss>to do even though ...</gloss> +<gloss>to force</gloss> +</sense> +<sense> +<stagk>押す</stagk> +<pos>&v5s;</pos> +<pos>&vt;</pos> +<xref type="see" seq="1900890">念を押す・ねんをおす</xref> +<xref type="see" seq="1892630">駄目を押す・だめをおす</xref> +<gloss>to make sure</gloss> +</sense> +<sense> +<stagk>押す</stagk> +<pos>&v5s;</pos> +<pos>&vt;</pos> +<gloss>to be pressed for time</gloss> +</sense> +<sense> +<stagk>押す</stagk> +<pos>&v5s;</pos> +<pos>&vt;</pos> +<gloss>to advance troops</gloss> +<gloss>to attack</gloss> +</sense> +<sense> +<stagk>押す</stagk> +<pos>&v5s;</pos> +<pos>&vt;</pos> +<gloss>(of light) to be diffused across an entire surface</gloss> +</sense>

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