First opened Friday, March 18, 2011
収める
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 store to pay, to supply
Osameru is cognate with 治める (osameru) and 修める (osameru).
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 収
In a sentence
彼が仲裁してその場は丸く収めた。
He intervened and settled the matter peacefully for the time being.
そのアメリカ映画は大成功を収めた。
That American movie was a great success.
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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.
- “Cognate with Japanese 治(おさ)める (osameru) and 修(おさ)める (osameru).”
Source: Wiktionary: 収める (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.