First opened Wednesday, February 16, 2011
足りる
たりる
- 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).
to be sufficient; to be enough
Tariru is an irregular conjugation shift from 足る (taru), which was originally quadrigrade.
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 足
In a sentence
１万円でたりる？
Will ten thousand yen do?
１ページ足りない。
There is a page missing.
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.
- “An irregular shift in conjugation from the verb 足(た)る (taru), which originally followed 四(よ)段(だん) (yodan, “quadrigrade”) conjugation.”
Source: Wiktionary: 足りる (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.
- Sound change
- The pronunciation shifted over the centuries.