Japanese edit

Kanji in this term
さか
Grade: 5

Grade: 2
kun’yomi
Alternative spelling
逆さ讀み (kyūjitai)

Etymology edit

Compound of 逆さ (sakasa, backwards) +‎ 読み (yomi, reading, the 連用形 (ren'yōkei, stem form) of verb 読む yomu “to read”).

Pronunciation edit

  • IPA(key): [sa̠ka̠sa̠jo̞mʲi]

Noun edit

(さか)() (sakasayomi

  1. a backwards reading of a sentence, starting from the end of the sentence
  2. a backwards reading of a book, starting from the last page

Verb edit

(さか)()する (sakasayomi surutransitive suru (stem (さか)() (sakasayomi shi), past (さか)()した (sakasayomi shita))

  1. to read a sentence backwards, starting from the end of the sentence
  2. to read a book backwards, starting from the last page

Conjugation edit