優しみ

Japanese
Kanji in this term
優
やさ
Grade: 6
kun’yomi

Etymology

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
  • (Tokyo) やさしみ [yàsáshímí] (Heiban – [0])[1]
  • IPA(key): [ja̠sa̠ɕimʲi]

Noun

優(やさ)しみ • (yasashimi) 

  1. the -mi nominalization of 優しい (yasashii, “tender, kind”): kindness, tenderness (as a subjective degree or amount)

See also

References
  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
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