Japanese edit

Kanji in this term
じょう
Grade: 3
on’yomi
Alternative spelling
乘じる (kyūjitai)

Etymology edit

Shift from verb (じょう)ずる (jōzuru), by natural progression from サ行変格活用 (sagyō henkaku katsuyō, s-irregular conjugation) verbs ending in -uru to 上一段活用 (kami ichidan katsuyō, upper monograde conjugation) verbs ending in -iru.

Pronunciation edit

Verb edit

(じょう)じる (jōjiruichidan (stem (じょう) (jōji), past (じょう)じた (jōjita))

  1. to take advantage of
  2. (mathematics) to multiply
  3. to follow blindly

Conjugation edit

References edit

  1. 1.0 1.1 NHK Broadcasting Culture Research Institute, editor (1998), NHK日本語発音アクセント辞典 [NHK Japanese Pronunciation Accent Dictionary] (in Japanese), Tōkyō: NHK Publishing, →ISBN