First opened Friday, November 18, 2011
試み
こころみ
- flat (heiban)
- tail-high (odaka): 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).
trial, experiment
Kokoromi is the continuative stem of the verb 試みる (kokoromiru, “to try, attempt”).
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 試
In a sentence
この試みは失敗に終わった。
This attempt resulted in failure.
我々の試みは、結局失敗した。
Our attempt has proved to be a failure.
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.
- “The 連(れん)用(よう)形(けい) (ren'yōkei, “stem or continuative form”) of the verb 試(こころ)みる (kokoromiru, “to try, attempt”).”
Source: Wiktionary: 試み (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.