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First opened Tuesday, June 23, 2015

暖まる

あたたまる

  • 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 warm up

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

Taken apart

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Written with 暖

In a sentence

  • それはとても心(こころ)あたたまる映画(えいが)だと思(おも)う。

    I think the film is a very heartwarming one.

    Tatoeba #205438, translation #42682

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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 あたたまる

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.

  • 暖まるThis word

    to warm up

    あたたま↓る middle-high (nakadaka)

  • 温まる

    to warm oneself, to get warm

    あたたま↓る middle-high (nakadaka)

Also opened on June 23

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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