優しみ
Japanese edit
| Kanji in this term |
|---|
| 優 |
| やさ Grade: 6 |
| kun’yomi |
Etymology edit
As a surface analysis, a compound of 優しい (yasashii, “kind, tender”) + み (mi, noun-forming suffix used with adjectives to express subjective degree or amount).
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
- the -mi nominalization of 優しい (yasashii, “tender, kind”): kindness, tenderness (as a subjective degree or amount)
See also edit
- 優しさ (yasashisa, “kindness, tenderness (as an objective degree or amount)”)
References edit
- ^ 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