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First opened Sunday, December 27, 2020

揉む

もむ

  • 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 rub, to crumple (up), to wrinkle

JLPT N2CommonGodan verb with 'mu' endingtransitive verb和語 · Native Japanese

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 揉

In a sentence

  • その結果(けっか)の報道(ほうどう)に満足(まんぞく)して彼(かれ)は手(て)をもんでうれしがっていた。

    He was rubbing his hands over the report of the result.

    Tatoeba #211126, translation #48400

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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 opened on December 27

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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