First opened Wednesday, November 22, 2017
震える
ふるえる
- 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 shiver, to shake, to quake
Taken apart
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Written with 震
In a sentence
彼女は寒さに震えた。
She shuddered with cold.
少年は物音に震えた。
The boy quivered at the sound.
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
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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.