First opened Friday, November 11, 2005
狙い
ねらい
- flat (heiban)
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).
aim
Nerai is a nominalization of the stem of 狙う (nerau, “to aim”).
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.
Written with 狙
In a sentence
君の狙いは何なんだ？
What are you getting at?
またアフィ狙いの記事か。
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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.
- “Nominalization of the 連用形 (ren'yōkei, “continuative or stem form”) of verb 狙う (nerau, “to aim”).”
Source: Wiktionary: 狙い (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
- 和語 Native Japanese
- Words that were already Japanese before Chinese vocabulary arrived — usually written with kun'yomi and often short.
- Derivation
- A word built from a stem plus a suffix or prefix.