First opened Sunday, December 16, 2012
無邪気
むじゃき
- head-high (atamadaka): falls after mora 1
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).
innocence, simple-mindedness
Mujaki is 無 (“non-”) plus 邪気 (“malice”), which occur in Classical Chinese but never as a single word.
Taken apart
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In a sentence
彼女は無邪気を装った。
She put on an air of innocence.
彼はたいへん無邪気だ。
He is harmless as a dove.
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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.
- “無 (“non-”) + 邪気 (“malice”), attestable in Classical Chinese e.g. Du Fu's famous prose 《秋述》 (literally “autumnal sentiments”) but never as a single word.”
Source: Wiktionary: 無邪気 (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
- 漢語 Sino-Japanese
- Words built from Chinese-derived morphemes — borrowed from Chinese or coined in Japan out of Chinese parts — read with on'yomi.
- Compound
- Two or more words or stems joined into one.