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First opened Friday, January 26, 2018

添う

そう

  • flat (heiban)
  • head-high (atamadaka): falls after mora 1

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 accompany, to comply with

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

Taken apart

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Written with 添

In a sentence

  • 残念(ざんねん)ながら、御(ご)要望(ようぼう)にはそいかねます。

    I am sorry, but I cannot meet your requirement.

    Tatoeba #169247, translation #245239

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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.

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.

See also
  • 沿うそうto run along, to follow

Also read そう

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.

  • 添うThis word

    to accompany, to comply with

    そう flat (heiban); そ↓う head-high (atamadaka)

  • 沿う

    to run along, to follow

    そう flat (heiban); そ↓う head-high (atamadaka)

  • 僧

    monk, priest

    そ↓う head-high (atamadaka)

  • 相

    aspect, phase, countenance

    そ↓う head-high (atamadaka)

  • そう

    yes; appears, to be the case

    No pitch accent shown

Also opened on January 26

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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