Japanese edit

Kanji in this term

Hyōgaiji
kun’yomi

Etymology edit

Cognate with Japanese 詫びる (wabiru).[1]

Pronunciation edit

Verb edit

()びる (wabiruintransitive ichidan (stem () (wabi), past ()びた (wabita))

  1. to long for, worry
  2. to apologize

Conjugation edit

Derived terms edit

References edit

  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 (in Japanese), Third edition, Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN
  2. 2.0 2.1 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