First opened Thursday, January 20, 2011
雑誌
ざっし
- 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).
magazine, journal
Zasshi is said to have been coined as a translation of English magazine, by the publisher of Seiyō Zasshi in 1867.
Taken apart
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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
雑誌をくれないか。
Give me some kind of magazines, will you?
その雑誌は毎週出る。
The magazine comes out every week.
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.
- “From 雑(ざつ) (zatsu, “miscellaneous”) + 誌(し) (shi, “record”).”
- “Said to have been coined by Yanagawa Shunsan (柳川(やながわ)春三(しゅんさん)), publisher of 西洋(せいよう)雑誌(ざっし) (Seiyō Zasshi, “Western Magazine”, 1867), as a translation of English magazine.”
Source: Wiktionary: 雑誌 (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
- 漢語 Sino-Japanese
- Words built from Chinese-derived morphemes — borrowed from Chinese or coined in Japan out of Chinese parts — read with on'yomi.
- Compound
- Two or more words or stems joined into one.
- Rendaku
- The first sound of the second part voices when two native words join (kami → -gami).