First opened Wednesday, October 25, 2023
親しむ
したしむ
- 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 be intimate with, to befriend
Taken apart
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Written with 親
In a sentence
アメリカ人は大変親しみやすい。
Americans are very friendly people.
メアリーは持ち前の優しい性格から級友たちから親しまれた。
Mary's kind nature quickly won her the friendship of her classmates.
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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.