First opened Tuesday, August 29, 2006
見舞い
みまい
- 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).
expression of sympathy, expression of concern
Mimai is the continuative stem of 見舞う (mimau), equivalent to 見 (mi) plus 舞い (mai).
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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
お見舞いありがとう。
Thank you for coming.
友人を見舞いに行く所です。
I'm on my way to visit a friend who's in the hospital.
Sentences are from Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0 FR), picked by fixed rules from a dated export and shown unchanged. Nobody has reviewed them one by one.
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.
- “連(れん)用(よう)形(けい) (ren'yōkei, “stem or continuative form”) of the verb 見(み)舞(ま)う (mimau).”
- “Equivalent to 見(み) (mi) + 舞(ま)い (mai, 連(れん)用(よう)形(けい) (ren'yōkei, “stem or continuative form”) of the verb 舞(ま)う (mau)).”
Source: Wiktionary: 見舞い (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.
- Compound
- Two or more words or stems joined into one.