First opened Wednesday, February 8, 2006
感ずる
かんずる
- 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).
to feel, to sense
Kanzuru is 感 plus する, with suru voiced to zuru by rendaku.
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 感
In a sentence
人生から非常な喜びを感ずる。
I get a kick out of life.
彼の言葉は正論だったが、僕は心のどこかで引っかかりを感じていた。
Even though what he said was sound, I still wasn't completely convinced.
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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.
- “Compound of 感 + する. The suru changes to zuru as an instance of rendaku (連濁).”
Source: Wiktionary: 感ずる (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
- 漢語 Sino-Japanese
- Words built from Chinese-derived morphemes — borrowed from Chinese or coined in Japan out of Chinese parts — read with on'yomi.
- 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).