First opened Friday, February 17, 2012
嘲笑う
あざわらう
- 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).
to sneer at, to ridicule
Azawarau is 嘲 (aza, “something off-color or not quite right”) plus 笑う (warau, “laugh”).
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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.
- “Compound of 嘲 (aza, “something off-color or not quite right”, compounding element found in terms such as 嘲る (azakeru, “to ridicule, to jeer at”) and 欺く (azamuku, “to deceive”), cognate with 痣 (aza, “bruise”)) + 笑う (warau, “laugh”).”
Source: Wiktionary: 嘲笑う (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
- Compound
- Two or more words or stems joined into one.