First opened Thursday, June 2, 2011
踏み込む
ふみこむ
- 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 step into (someone else's territory, to break into, to raid
Fumikomu is 踏む (fumu, “to step on, tread on, stamp”) plus 込む (komu, “to go into”).
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In a sentence
君は危険な領域に踏み込んでいるよ。
You're stepping into dangerous territory.
君子が恐れて踏み込まぬ所へも愚者は突入する。
Fools rush in where angels fear to tread.
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.
- “Compound of 踏(ふ)む (fumu, “to step on, tread on, stamp”) + 込(こ)む (komu, “to go into”).”
Source: Wiktionary: 踏み込む (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.
- Compound
- Two or more words or stems joined into one.