First opened Tuesday, February 26, 2013
未だ
いまだ
- 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).
yet, still
Imada is from Old Japanese, first appearing in the Kojiki of 712 CE, and ultimately from Proto-Japonic.
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 未
In a sentence
彼はいまだ病気で寝ている。
He remains sick in bed.
警察はいまだ犯人を特定できないでいる。
The police still can't point out who committed the crime.
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, first appearing in the Kojiki of 712 CE; ultimately from Proto-Japonic *imanta. Cognate with Okinawan なーだ (nāda, “yet”).”
Source: Wiktionary: 未だ (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).
Other readings of 未だ on the same Wiktionary page
These describe other words written the same way, not いまだ. They are quoted for context: the parts, layer and processes of this word are not taken from them.
まだ
- “Apheresis of 未(いま)だ (imada).”
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.