First opened Friday, July 1, 2016

味方

みかた

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).

ally, supporter

JLPT N3Commonnoun (common) (futsuumeishi)nouns which may take the genitive case particle 'no'混種語 · HybridAteji

Taken apart

We don't have the data for this section. Wiktionary has no Etymology section for this reading, and a split made without one would be a guess.

Written with 味方

In a sentence

彼(かれ)の味方(みかた)になる。
I take sides with him.
Tatoeba #116104, translation #287566
弱(よわ)い方(ほう)に味方(みかた)する。
I side with a weaker party.
Tatoeba #148720, translation #265839

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

We don't have the data for this section. The pinned Wiktionary dump has no Etymology section for this reading, so nothing is said about where the word comes from.

What the labels mean

混種語 Hybrid: Words that mix layers, e.g. a native part with a Chinese one.
Ateji: Kanji chosen for their sound or sense after the word existed.

Related in the dictionary

The words JMdict points to from this word's sense. A word that has opened links to its day; the others are named as JMdict writes them.

Opposite: 敵てきenemy, rival

Other words so far that share a part, a process or a layer with this one, closest first. Each tag says what is shared; nothing here is a claim beyond what the entries already show.

無闇にむやみに
unreasonably, absurdly, at random
- Ateji
- 混種語 Hybrid
中味なかみ
contents, interior, filling
- Ateji
- 混種語 Hybrid
支払うしはらう
to pay
- Ateji
- 混種語 Hybrid
呆気ないあっけない
not enough, too quick (short, long, etc.)
- Ateji
- 混種語 Hybrid
余程よほど
very, much, to a large extent, quite
- Ateji
- 混種語 Hybrid
仕上げるしあげる
to finish up, to complete
- Ateji
- 混種語 Hybrid

Also opened on July 1

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