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First opened Sunday, June 15, 2008

治める

おさめる

  • 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).

to govern, to manage; to subdue

JLPT N3CommonIchidan verbtransitive verb和語 · Native Japanese

治める is from Old Japanese 治む (wosamu), and the source gives 収める (osameru) as a cognate.

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 治

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.

Not settled

Wiktionary itself hedges on part of this word's origin — those lines are marked below.

  • “From Old Japanese 治む (wosamu). Attested in the Nihon Shoki of 720 CE, and the Man'yōshū of circa 759 CE. Ultimately from Proto-Japonic *wosamu (“to control”). Cognate with 収(おさ)める (osameru).”
  • “Development”
  • “Natural progression from Old and Classical Japanese 下(しも)二(に)段(だん)活(かつ)用(よう) (shimo nidan katsuyō, “lower bigrade conjugation”) verbs ending in -u to modern Japanese 下(しも)一(いち)段(だん)活(かつ)用(よう) (shimo ichidan katsuyō, “lower monograde conjugation”) verbs ending in -eru. For the Old / Classical form, see the 治む entry.”
  • Hedged“Likely derived ultimately from 長(おさ) (osa, “boss, chief, controller, ruler”).”

Source: Wiktionary: 治める (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.

Also read おさめる

Other words so far with exactly this reading and another spelling, oldest first, with the pitch accent each entry shows: where they differ, the pitch tells the words apart in speech. Only the readings are compared; nothing is claimed about how the words are related.

  • 治めるThis word

    to govern, to manage; to subdue

    おさめ↓る middle-high (nakadaka)

  • 収める

    to store to pay, to supply

    おさめ↓る middle-high (nakadaka)

  • 納める

    to store to pay, to supply

    おさめ↓る middle-high (nakadaka)

Also opened on June 15

The words that opened on this day of the year in other years, oldest first. They share only the date: nothing else links them.

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