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寄る

寄る

Japanese

Kanji in this term
Grade: 5

Verb

寄る (intransitive, godan conjugation, hiragana よる, romaji yoru)

  1. come near, come up
  2. step aside
  3. gather
  4. drop by, call on someone
  5. advance in years
  6. (sumo) push out while grabbing the belt

Conjugation

References

  1. Starostin, Sergei; Dybo, Anna; Mudrak, Oleg (2003), *dōre”, in Etymological dictionary of the Altaic languages (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.8), Leiden, New York, Köln: E.J. Brill