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First opened Tuesday, October 4, 2022

収まる

おさまる

  • middle-high (nakadaka): falls after mora 3

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 settle into; to be obtained

JLPT N1CommonGodan verb with 'ru' endingintransitive verb和語 · Native Japanese

Taken apart

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Written with 収

In a sentence

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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 おさまる

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.

  • 収まるThis word

    to settle into; to be obtained

    おさま↓る middle-high (nakadaka)

  • 納まる

    to settle into; to be obtained

    おさま↓る middle-high (nakadaka)

  • 治まる

    to be at peace, to calm down

    おさま↓る middle-high (nakadaka)

Also opened on October 4

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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