First opened Wednesday, November 19, 2025
ぼやく
ぼやく
- middle-high (nakadaka): falls after mora 2
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 grumble, to complain
JLPT N1Godan verb with 'ku' endingintransitive verb和語 · Native Japanese
Taken apart
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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.