First opened Thursday, January 29, 2015

湿る

しめる

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 be wet, to be damp

JLPT N3CommonGodan verb with 'ru' endingintransitive verb和語 · Native Japanese

Taken apart

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Written with 湿

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 しめる

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.

湿るThis word
to be wet, to be damp
しめる flat (heiban)
閉める
to close, to shut
しめ↓る middle-high (nakadaka)
締める
to tie, to fasten, to tighten
しめ↓る middle-high (nakadaka)
占める
to take up; to account for
しめ↓る middle-high (nakadaka)

Also opened on January 29

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