First opened Thursday, January 31, 2008
さて
さて
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well; now (typically used when switching to a new, usually more important topic)
Sate is compared with さして (sashite, “(not) to such an extent”), and its page notes the readings さす (sasu) of kanji 扨 and 扠.
Taken apart
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In a sentence
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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.
- “Compare さして (sashite, “(not) to such an extent”), from 然(さ) (sa), and さして (sashite, conjunctive form of さす (sasu)). For the latter, note readings さす (sasu) of kanji 扨 and 扠, also alternative spellings of this term.”
Source: Wiktionary: さて (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.