First opened Thursday, January 26, 2012
訪れる
おとずれる
- 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).
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Otozureru is from the Classical Japanese verb otoduru, analysable as 音 (oto, “sound”) plus 連れる (tsureru, “to bring along; to accompany”), with rendaku.
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 訪
In a sentence
彼は昨日私を訪れた。
He called on me yesterday.
昨日彼の家を訪れた。
I called at his house yesterday.
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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.
- “From Classical Japanese verb 訪(おとづ)る (otoduru). Analyzable as 音(おと) (oto, “sound”) + 連(つ)れる (tsureru, “to bring along; to accompany”); the tsureru changes to zureru as an instance of rendaku (連濁).”
Source: Wiktionary: 訪れる (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.
- Rendaku
- The first sound of the second part voices when two native words join (kami → -gami).