Japanese word
重い
おもい
In your course · Chapter 23
- Part of speech
- adjective
- Level
- B1
- Frequency
- No. 982 in the course corpus
Meanings
- heavy
- weighty
- heavy (feeling)
- depressed
- gloomy
- blue
- uneasy
- slow
- sluggish
- lumbering
- ponderous
- clumsy
- important (position, responsibility, etc.)
- serious
- grave
- serious (punishment, illness, etc.)
- severe
- critical
- solid
- established
- dignified
- sensible
- heavy (shape or stones)
- solid stones that must be defended rather than sacrificed, despite the high cost of doing so
Source: Tonada course · JMdict (CC BY-SA 4.0 (EDRDG Licence))
Kanji
- 重
- On reading:
- ジュウ、チョウ
- Kun reading:
- え、おも、おも.い、おも.なう、おも.り、かさ.なる、かさ.ねる
- Meanings:
- heavy, important, esteem, respect, heap up, pile up, nest of boxes, -fold
Source: KANJIDIC2 (CC BY-SA 4.0 (EDRDG Licence))