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First opened Tuesday, July 2, 2013

かぶる

かぶる

Pitch accent: We don't have the data for this section. No accent list gives this spelling and reading, or the two we check against disagree.

to wear, to put on (e.g., a hat on the head)

JLPT N5CommonGodan verb with 'ru' endingtransitive verb和語 · Native Japanese

Taken apart

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In a sentence

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What Wiktionary says

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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.

Also read かぶる

Other words so far with exactly this reading and another spelling, oldest first, with the pitch accent each entry shows: where they differ, the pitch tells the words apart in speech. Only the readings are compared; nothing is claimed about how the words are related.

  • かぶるThis word

    to wear, to put on (e.g., a hat on the head)

    No pitch accent shown

  • 被る

    to wear; to be covered with

    かぶ↓る middle-high (nakadaka)

Also opened on July 2

The words that opened on this day of the year in other years, oldest first. They share only the date: nothing else links them.

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