First opened Tuesday, February 26, 2008
混ぜる
まぜる
- middle-high (nakadaka): falls after mora 2
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 mix, to stir
Mazeru is from Old Japanese mazu, first attested in the Nihon Shoki of 720, cognate with Okinawan 混じゆん (majiyun).
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 混
In a sentence
小銭を混ぜてください。
I'd like to have smaller bills mixed in.
牛乳と卵を混ぜなさい。
Blend milk and eggs together.
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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.
- “From Old Japanese mazu, first attested in the Nihon Shoki of 720.”
- “Reconstructed as deriving from Proto-Japonic *mansu. Cognate with Okinawan 混じゆん (majiyun).”
Source: Wiktionary: 混ぜる (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
- 和語 Native Japanese
- Words that were already Japanese before Chinese vocabulary arrived — usually written with kun'yomi and often short.