Japanese word
祝う
いわう
In your course · Chapter 38
- Part of speech
- verb
- Level
- B1
- Frequency
- No. 1,236 in the course corpus
Meanings
- to celebrate
- to congratulate
- to observe (a festival)
- to present (a gift) in celebration
- to drink in celebration
- to wish for (a happy future, good fortune, etc.)
- to pray for
Source: Tonada course · JMdict (CC BY-SA 4.0 (EDRDG Licence))
Kanji
- 祝
- On reading:
- シュウ、シュク
- Kun reading:
- いわ.う
- Meanings:
- celebrate, congratulate
Source: KANJIDIC2 (CC BY-SA 4.0 (EDRDG Licence))