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The purpose of this paper is to clarify the meaning construction of Japanese verb nuku. According to Daijirin Dictionary, nuku has 20 different meanings-pull out, chose, remove, omit, surpass etc. This paper investigates the semantic structure of nuku in the cognitive semantics view, especially image schema transformation that is supposed to offer an explanation with consistency and coherency. nuku means to ‘pull trajector B out from landmark A’ in prototypically. It means also to chose B or remove B from A subsequently. In prototipical meaning, an act of nuku make a hole in the A by pulling out B, because A and B stick to each other or compose one structure originally. This meaning extend to pierce or pass through A, moreover, pass by A, consequently. As a compund verb suffix, nuku represents a grammatical aspects that means to carry out an action completely and throughly. It is supposed that the meaning of passing through mapped the time concept.