飛び込む

Japanese

Kanji in this term

Grade: 4

Grade: S
kun’yomi

Etymology

Compound of 飛び (tobi, jumping, the 連用形 (ren'yōkei, continuative or stem form) of verb 飛ぶ (tobu, to jump; to fly)) + 込む (komu, to go into).[1]

Pronunciation

Alternative forms

  • 飛込む (less common)

Verb

飛び込む (intransitive, godan conjugation, hiragana とびこむ, rōmaji tobikomu)

  1. to jump into, to leap into, to dive into, to plunge into
     (うみ) () ()
    umi ni tobikomu
    to jump into the sea
  2. to come rushing in
  3. to butt in

Conjugation

See also

References

  1. 1988, 国語大辞典(新装版) (Kokugo Dai Jiten, Revised Edition) (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Shogakukan
  2. 2006, 大辞林 (Daijirin), Third Edition (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN
  • 2002, Ineko Kondō; Fumi Takano; Mary E Althaus; et. al., Shogakukan Progressive Japanese-English Dictionary, Third Edition, Tokyo: Shōgakukan, →ISBN.
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