First opened Thursday, July 14, 2005
欲張り
よくばり
- middle-high (nakadaka): falls after mora 3
- tail-high (odaka): falls after mora 4
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).
greedy
Yokubari is the stem of 欲張る (yokubaru, “to be intensely greedy”) and appears in texts from 1813.
Taken apart
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Wiktionary's text doesn't split this word, so each part is one of its kanji (with the okurigana written after it), with the reading and the dictionary meaning KANJIDIC2 gives that character — a word doesn't always use every sense of its kanji.
In a sentence
持てば持つほど、欲張りになる。
The more you have, the more you want.
シャイロックは欲張りで、さらに悪いことには大変なけちだ。
Shylock is greedy, and what is worse, very stingy.
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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.
Not settled
Wiktionary itself hedges on part of this word's origin — those lines are marked below.
- “The 連用形 (ren'yōkei, “continuative or stem form”) of verb 欲張る (yokubaru, “to be intensely greedy”).”
- “Appears in texts from 1813.”
- Hedged“Ultimately, likely a shift from older synonym 欲ぼり (yokubori), dating to 1519.”
Source: Wiktionary: 欲張り (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
- 混種語 Hybrid
- Words that mix layers, e.g. a native part with a Chinese one.
- Compound
- Two or more words or stems joined into one.
- Rendaku
- The first sound of the second part voices when two native words join (kami → -gami).
- Sound change
- The pronunciation shifted over the centuries.