First opened Monday, June 27, 2005
流行る
はやる
- middle-high (nakadaka): falls after mora 2
How to read it: a line over a kana means the voice is high there, and ↓ marks where it drops. A kana with no line is low. With no ↓ the pitch stays high to the end and does not drop even on a following particle (が, は).
to be popular, to come into fashion
Hayaru is related to 早い (hayai, “early, fast”), ultimately from Proto-Japonic *paya.
Taken apart
No breakdown is shown for this word: Wiktionary's text for it doesn't give a split that spells the word and joins to its reading, and any other split would be a guess.
In a sentence
風邪がはやっている。
A lot of colds are going around.
今何が流行っていますか。
What is popular now?
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What Wiktionary says
Quoted line by line from Wiktionary's Etymology section for this reading, taken from one dated dump so it can't change underneath us. Nothing below is paraphrased.
- “Related to 早(はや)い (hayai, “early, fast”) and 逸(はや)る (hayaru, “to be impatient”), ultimately from Proto-Japonic *paya.”
Source: Wiktionary: 流行る (dump of 2026-09-02), available under CC BY-SA 4.0. Reading, meaning and part of speech from JMdict, and kanji readings from KANJIDIC2 (EDRDG).
What the labels mean
- Ateji
- Kanji chosen for their sound or sense after the word existed.