First opened Sunday, March 25, 2012
腫れる
はれる
- flat (heiban)
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 swell (from inflammation, to become swollen)
Hareru is from Old Japanese, appears in the Man'yōshū of 759 CE, and is originally from the realis form of 張る (haru, “to become taut or tense”).
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 腫
In a sentence
小指がはれました。
My little finger is swollen.
歯茎がはれています。
My gums are swollen.
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.
- “From Old Japanese. Appears in the Man'yōshū of 759 CE.”
- “Originally from the 已然形 (izenkei, “realis form”) of verb 張る (haru, “to become taut or tense”).”
Source: Wiktionary: 腫れる (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.