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First opened Sunday, November 16, 2025

ぼつぼつ

ぼつぼつ

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gradually, here and there, spots

JLPT N1adverb (fukushi)adverb taking the 'to' particlenoun (common) (futsuumeishi)和語 · Native Japanese

Taken apart

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What Wiktionary says

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  • “Onomatopoeic.”

Source: Wiktionary: ぼつぼつ (dump of 2026-09-02), available under CC BY-SA 4.0. Reading, meaning and part of speech from JMdict, and kanji readings from KANJIDIC2 (EDRDG).

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 November 16

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