First opened Friday, September 9, 2011
好ましい
このましい
- middle-high (nakadaka): falls after mora 4
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).
nice, likable, desirable
Konomashii is the verb 好む (konomu, “to prefer, to like”) made into an adjective with the suffix しい (-shii).
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 好
In a sentence
その志望者は試験官に好ましい印象を与えた。
The applicant impressed the examiner favorably.
ジョギングは、運動として、好ましい形態になった。
Jogging has become the favorite form of exercise.
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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.
- “Adjectivization of verb 好(この)む (konomu, “to prefer, to like”), using the adjectivizing suffix しい (-shii, “that kind of thing, that kind of quality”).”
Source: Wiktionary: 好ましい (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.
- Derivation
- A word built from a stem plus a suffix or prefix.