First opened Wednesday, September 19, 2012
顧みる
かえりみる
- 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).
to look back, to turn around, to review
Kaerimiru is 帰り (kaeri, the stem of 帰る (kaeru, “to return, to go home”)) plus 見る (miru, “to look, to watch, to take care”).
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 顧
In a sentence
彼女は費用を顧みず家を飾りたてた。
She decorated her house regardless of cost.
彼は危険をかえりみず勇気を示した。
He showed courage in the face of danger.
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 帰(かえ)り (kaeri, 連(れん)用(よう)形(けい) (ren'yōkei, “stem or continuative form”) of the verb 帰(かえ)る (kaeru, “to return, to go home”).) + 見(み)る (miru, “to look, to watch, to take care”).”
- “The み (mi) is written as an okurigana to indicate the reading of 顧.”
Source: Wiktionary: 顧みる (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.