労しい

Japanese

Kanji in this term
労
いたわ
Grade: 4
kun’yomi
Alternative spelling
勞しい (kyūjitai)

Etymology

Cognate with 労(いたわ)る (itawaru).

Pronunciation

  • (Tokyo) いたわし​い [ìtáwáshíꜜì] (Nakadaka – [4])[1]
  • IPA(key): [ita̠ɰᵝa̠ɕiː]

Adjective

労(いたわ)しい • (itawashii) ←いたはしい (itafasii)?-i (adverbial 労(いたわ)しく (itawashiku))

  1. pitiful

Inflection

References

  1. Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 [Daijirin] (in Japanese), Third edition, Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN
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