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お大事に
おだいじに
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Take care of yourself, Take care!, Get well soon
Odaiji ni is お (o) plus 大事 (daiji, “important”) plus に (ni), shortened from お大事になさってください (o daiji ni nasatte kudasai).
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In a sentence
どうぞお大事に。
Please take care of yourself.
お体をお大事に。
Take care of yourself.
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What Wiktionary says
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- “From お (o, honorific marker) + 大(だい)事(じ) (daiji, “important”) + に (ni, particle for direction); shortened from expressions such as お大(だい)事(じ)になさってください (o daiji ni nasatte kudasai, “Please take care of yourself”).”
Source: Wiktionary: お大事に (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.