First opened Thursday, February 14, 2008
編み物
あみもの
- middle-high (nakadaka): falls after mora 2
- middle-high (nakadaka): falls after mora 3
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).
knitting
Amimono is ami, the stem of 編む (amu, “to knit”), plus 物 (-mono, “thing”).
Taken apart
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In a sentence
その少女は編物が上手だ。
The girl is skillful at knitting.
彼女は余暇に編み物を始めた。
She has taken up knitting in her spare time.
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.
- “Compound of 編(あ)み (ami, 連(れん)用(よう)形(けい) (ren'yōkei, “stem or continuative form”) of the verb 編(あ)む (amu, “to knit”)) + 物(もの) (-mono, “thing”).”
Source: Wiktionary: 編み物 (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.