Japanese edit

Kanji in this term
せん
Grade: S
on’yomi

Etymology edit

Shift from verb (せん)ずる (senzuru), 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

(せん)じる (senjirutransitive ichidan (stem (せん) (senji), past (せん)じた (senjita))

  1. to boil; to decoct; to infuse

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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