可愛らしい

Japanese

Kanji in this term

Grade: 5
あい > わい
Grade: 4
on’yomi Irregular

Etymology

The kanji are ateji (当て字).

Pronunciation

  • (Irregular reading)
    • (Tokyo) わいらし [kàwáíráshíꜜì] (Nakadaka – [5])[1]
    • IPA(key): [ka̠ɰᵝa̠iɾa̠ɕiː]

Adjective

可愛らしい (-i inflection, hiragana かわいらしい, rōmaji kawairashii, historical hiragana かはいらしい)

  1. darling, lovely, pretty

Inflection

References

  1. 2006, 大辞林 (Daijirin), Third Edition (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN
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