手軽

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Japanese

Kanji in this term

Grade: 1
かる > がる
Grade: 3
kun’yomi
Alternative spelling
手輕 (kyūjitai)

Etymology

From the stem of 手軽い (tegarui).

First cited to a text from 1754.

Pronunciation

Adjective

()(がる) (tegaru-na (adnominal ()(がる) (tegaru na), adverbial ()(がる) (tegaru ni))

  1. handy, easy, simple, light
    メールは()(がる)(れん)(らく)(しゅ)(だん)として
    Mēru wa tegaru na renraku no shudan toshite
    E-mail, as an easy means of communication,

Inflection

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 Shōgaku Tosho (1988) 国語大辞典(新装版) [Unabridged Dictionary of Japanese (Revised Edition)] (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Shogakukan, →ISBN
  2. 2.0 2.1 Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 (in Japanese), Third edition, Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN
  3. ^ 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
  4. ^ Kindaichi, Kyōsuke et al., editors (1997), 新明解国語辞典 (in Japanese), Fifth edition, Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN